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On Thursday 26 January 2006 03:35 pm, Robert Persson wrote: |
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> Someone was kind enough to send me a script that calls /usr/bin/test. When |
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the |
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> script didn't work I realised that test was behaving strangely. Basically it |
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> doesn't seem to return anything. |
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> For instance "test -f /usr/bin/test" doesn't display any output. |
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> Nor does "test --help". |
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> Nor "test --version". |
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> The version I am using is from sys-apps/coreutils-5.2.1-r6 . |
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> It's very hard to do a google search for anything to do with troubleshooting |
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a |
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> program called "test". Anyone know what is going on here? |
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try "info coreutils test". Seems there may also be a "test" command built |
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into the shell. In addition, test itself doesn't seem like it prints out |
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information, but simply exits with an error code of 0, 1, or 2. It also said |
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something about using an unmatched square bracket when trying to use the |
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--help and --version options. |
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In general, it just looks kind of weird. |
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Eric Bliss |
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