On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 02:18:47AM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > 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
Hi Vincent, the -e switch to test takes an argument, a pathname. If you don't supply the pathname, the test builtin with take the \) as pathname, and complains about the missing closing parenthesis, which seems quite right. I don't see a bug here. $ dash -c 'test \( ! -e "" \); echo $?' works just fine. HTH, Gerrit. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
