Package: dash Version: 0.5.4-3 Severity: normal According to POSIX[*], "test \( ! -e \)" is a 4-argument test and is here equivalent to "test ! -e". But dash (like ksh93 and bash) yields an error:
$ test \( ! -e \) || echo $? test: 1: closing paren expected 2 $ test ! -e || echo $? 1 The "test" utility from the Coreutils is correct: $ /usr/bin/test \( ! -e \) || echo $? 1 [*] http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/test.html -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.23-1-686-bigmem (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages dash depends on: ii libc6 2.7-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries dash recommends no packages. -- debconf information excluded -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
