Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/bin/test doesn't seem to do anything

2006-01-28 Thread Beau E. Cox
On Friday 27 January 2006 09:43 pm, Robert Persson wrote: > On Thursday 26 January 2006 16:22 Richard Fish was like: > > test doesn't output anything...it indicates success/failure with the > > exit code.   > > ... > > > As others have said though, watch out for the 'test' command built-in > > to m

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/bin/test doesn't seem to do anything

2006-01-27 Thread Robert Persson
On Thursday 26 January 2006 16:22 Richard Fish was like: > test doesn't output anything...it indicates success/failure with the > exit code.   ... > As others have said though, watch out for the 'test' command built-in > to many shells, as the behavior there is defined by the shell. > Generally tho

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/bin/test doesn't seem to do anything

2006-01-26 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/26/06, Robert Persson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Someone was kind enough to send me a script that calls /usr/bin/test. When the > script didn't work I realised that test was behaving strangely. Basically it > doesn't seem to return anything. test doesn't output anything...it indicates succe

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/bin/test doesn't seem to do anything

2006-01-26 Thread Eric Bliss
On Thursday 26 January 2006 03:35 pm, Robert Persson wrote: > Someone was kind enough to send me a script that calls /usr/bin/test. When the > script didn't work I realised that test was behaving strangely. Basically it > doesn't seem to return anything. > > For instance "test -f /usr/bin/test"

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/bin/test doesn't seem to do anything

2006-01-26 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert Persson wrote: > Someone was kind enough to send me a script that calls /usr/bin/test. When > the > script didn't work I realised that test was behaving strangely. Basically it > doesn't seem to return anything. > > For instance "test -f /us

[gentoo-user] /usr/bin/test doesn't seem to do anything

2006-01-26 Thread Robert Persson
Someone was kind enough to send me a script that calls /usr/bin/test. When the script didn't work I realised that test was behaving strangely. Basically it doesn't seem to return anything. For instance "test -f /usr/bin/test" doesn't display any output. Nor does "test --help". Nor "test --vers