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bug#33097: test has filetest -a but man page doesn't list it

From: Bernhard Voelker
Subject: bug#33097: test has filetest -a but man page doesn't list it
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2018 01:06:49 +0200
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On 10/21/18 2:09 AM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> I have the opposite impression. Any scripts using this confusing -a operator 
> are 
> already broken, and we should phase it out. Not that anybody actually *uses* 
> coreutils "test -a".

Done with the attached 1st patch.

The 2nd patch is a cleanup avoiding the redundant checking of unary operators
in test_unop and unary_operator.

The 3rd patch adds support for 'test -N FILE' as in bash.
Please check (on various platforms / file systems if possible).

Thanks & have a nice day,
Berny

Attachment: 0001-test-remove-support-for-the-ambigous-a-unary-operato.patch
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Attachment: 0002-test-simplify-redundant-code.patch
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Attachment: 0003-test-add-N-unary-operator.patch
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