test(1): Obsolescent logical operators

DISCUSSION Martin Gebert 2 participants 2 messages Mar 4, 2016 1 message not in the archive Man-pages: manual pages for Linux -- Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7

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Martin Gebert

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2016-03-04 10:35 UTC #0 lore raw

Hi Michael!

As I just learned from this discussion

http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/267335/how-can-i-check-that-two-input-values-are-correct-in-a-bash-script

the -a and -o operators of test(1) are marked obsolescent:

http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/test.html#tag_20_128_16

Yet the Linux man pages don't contain a hint to that.

Cheers,

Martin
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Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)

2016-03-04 10:51 UTC #2 lore raw

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Hi Martin,

Quoted 11 lines · Martin Gebert

Hi Michael!
As I just learned from this discussion
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/267335/how-can-i-check-that-two-input-values-are-correct-in-a-bash-script
the -a and -o operators of test(1) are marked obsolescent:
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/test.html#tag_20_128_16
Yet the Linux man pages don't contain a hint to that.

That page belongs to another project. See
http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/test.1.html#COLOPHON

Cheers,

Michael

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