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bug#24894: coreutils 8.4 : `test -s` without argument does not return an
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Pádraig Brady |
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bug#24894: coreutils 8.4 : `test -s` without argument does not return an error |
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Mon, 7 Nov 2016 16:51:33 +0000 |
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On 07/11/16 12:58, BAECKEROOT Alain wrote:
> Dear gnu-coreutils team
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> We had a funny problem caused by `test` which does return "0" when an option
> is given without any EXPRESSION
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> The man page says (near line 15 or so) :
> An omitted EXPRESSION defaults to false.
It's a bit of a gotcha, but not a bug. I updated:
http://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/coreutils-gotchas.html#test
thanks,
Pádraig