Re: Bug in test

[Eric Blake]

Bob Proulx <bob <at> proulx.com> writes:

> Two points are of interest about your test --help question.  One is
> that unless you are careful you are getting the shell builtin test and
> not the external standalone test program.

In addition to Bob's excellent points, there is one more thing to consider: the 
alternate spelling of test DOES support the --help option.  Given that your 
system is Ubuntu, you can probably do:

/bin/[ --help

to see the help output corresponding to coreutils' test.

-- 
Eric Blake