On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 14:40 +0100, Gabor Gombas wrote: > On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 06:37:33PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > > > I'm a little confused. When I use "test -a", I'm not using a "bash > > feature"; I'm using a *test* feature, supported by /usr/bin/test for as > > long as it's existed, IIRC. > > [Little OT] > > Minor historical detail if someone is interested: 'test' in coreutils > comes from sh-utils, and sh-utils changelog has this entry: > > Sun Aug 11 18:10:30 1991 David J. MacKenzie (djm at wookumz.gnu.ai.mit.edu) > [...] > * test.c: New file, from bash. > > So you in fact _are_ using a bash feature, and there was a time when > /usr/bin/test did not even exist (but hey, neither did Debian :-) The *file* comes from bash. The *feature* does not. Thomas
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