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Re: Add warning on test -a, -o documentation


From: Chet Ramey
Subject: Re: Add warning on test -a, -o documentation
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2019 08:25:22 -0500
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On 2/13/19 8:08 PM, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote:
> On the bash man page at
>               expr1 -a expr2
>                      True if both expr1 and expr2 are true.
>               expr1 -o expr2
>                      True if either expr1 or expr2 is true.
> and on "help test" perhaps add the same warning as one sees on
> (info "(coreutils) Connectives for test").

I'll stick with the POSIX description based on the number of arguments
instead of the contradictory description in the coreutils info document.

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