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bug#9211: test -l
From: |
Bob Proulx |
Subject: |
bug#9211: test -l |
Date: |
Sun, 31 Jul 2011 18:22:11 -0600 |
User-agent: |
Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
tag 9211 + notabug
thanks
Clifton Ray Hodges wrote:
> In the test manual for the 'test' command, it states that:
> "INTEGER may also be -l STRING, which evaluates to the length of
> STRING"
> and even in the info page it gives an example of:
>
> test -l abc -gt 1 && echo yes
Note that it isn't standard. It is a coreutils extension.
> but that command, as well as any in scripts, reports an error of:
>
> bash: test: -l: unary operator expected
The error line tells all. It says "bash: test" and that is the bash
test and not the coreutils test.
$ type test
test is a shell builtin
To get the coreutils test you would need to force it to be an external
command.
$ /usr/bin/test -l abc -gt 1 && echo yes
yes
Bob