[Emacs-bug-tracker] bug#9211: closed (test -l)

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--- Begin Message --- Subject: test -l Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2011 10:07:36 -0400 User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110616 SUSE/3.1.11 NOT Firefox/3.5 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.11

Hi,

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

but that command, as well as any in scripts, reports an error of:

bash: test: -l: unary operator expected

This has been the case since as far back as least the summer of 2009 when after I shortly started using a Linux Operating System - that was PCLinuxOS back then, but now I am using openSUSE in the past year (currently version 11.4 KDE).

Regards,
Clifton

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> tag 9211 + notabug
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> 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
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> > and even in the info page it gives an example of:
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> Note that it isn't standard.  It is a coreutils extension.
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> > but that command, as well as any in scripts, reports an error of:
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> > bash: test: -l: unary operator expected
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> The error line tells all.  It says "bash: test" and that is the bash
> test and not the coreutils test.
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>   $ type test
>   test is a shell builtin
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> To get the coreutils test you would need to force it to be an external
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>   $ /usr/bin/test -l abc -gt 1 && echo yes
>   yes
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> Bob
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