Re: bash bug? test -r works

[Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>]

Steve M. Robbins <steven.robbins@videotron.ca> wrote:
> In debugging a shell script, I discovered that bash (and ash)
> treat

>        test -x 

> as true.  Normally, one would use "test -x SOMEFILE", and
> I would have expected a bare "test -x" to be a syntax error.
> However, both bash and ash return status 0 (true) with no
> diagnostics.

That's correct.  To get the result you want, use quotes, i.e.,

test -x "$SOMEFILE"
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