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| author | Peter Stephenson <pws@users.sourceforge.net> | 2004-10-05 10:39:41 +0000 |
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| committer | Peter Stephenson <pws@users.sourceforge.net> | 2004-10-05 10:39:41 +0000 |
| commit | 46141be5f917a47b99c4c3be62c9231ae9afca70 (patch) | |
| tree | 2fb5fc3aa156905062ff689272fc012ae3335db3 /Doc | |
| parent | 684da738b06f27d2736d6f60429f26206dc2ffbc (diff) | |
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20412, tweaked: Make test builtin more POSIX compatible
20435: Make pattern.c not alter strings.
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diff --git a/Doc/Zsh/builtins.yo b/Doc/Zsh/builtins.yo index 5d8f86f29..51802f1d6 100644 --- a/Doc/Zsh/builtins.yo +++ b/Doc/Zsh/builtins.yo @@ -1124,6 +1124,12 @@ xitem(tt(test) [ var(arg) ... ]) item(tt([) [ var(arg) ... ] tt(]))( Like the system version of tt(test). Added for compatibility; use conditional expressions instead (see noderef(Conditional Expressions)). +The main differences between the conditional expression syntax and the +tt(test) and tt([) builtins are: these commands are not handled +syntactically, so for example an empty variable expansion may cause an +argument to be omitted; syntax errors cause status 2 to be returned instead +of a shell error; and arithmetic operators expect integer arguments rather +than arithemetic expressions. ) findex(times) cindex(shell, timing) |