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bug#33097: test has filetest -a but man page doesn't list it
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Pádraig Brady |
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bug#33097: test has filetest -a but man page doesn't list it |
Date: |
Mon, 22 Oct 2018 05:11:51 -0700 |
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On 21/10/18 16:06, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> 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).
Very nice.
atime has 24 hour resolution on vfat I think,
though I think your test should handle that.
Also -N should work with common relatime mount option.
thanks!
Pádraig