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To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch)
cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users),
        bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans)
Subject: Re: Anyone mind if I remove the following braindamage from test(1)? 
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Date: Mon, 02 Sep 1996 00:03:46 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> No:
> 
> j@uriah 651% [ -d ] && echo Yup, -d aint empty.
> Yup, -d aint empty.
> 
> That's apparently the reasoning behind.
> 
> >   Is there any POSIX weirdness which
> > mandates that test not do proper argument checking?
> 
>  The algorithm for determining the precedence of the operators and the      1

That's really weird, but at least -f, -e and so on are all broken
in the same way. :-)

And I still think it's a bug.  I don't see why "[ -f /tmp/i_exist ]"
and "[ -f ]" should be treated identically.  I'd expect the opposite.

					Jordan