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Re: Bug#270868: Should not implement "test" builtin



Thomas Hood <jdthood@yahoo.co.uk> writes:

>>> The actual list of built-in utilities specified by POSIX[1] is:
>>> 
>>>     break, colon, continue, dot, eval, exec, exit, export, readonly,
               ^^^^^

> Interestingly, that leaves ":".  There is no standalone ":" and I can't
> find any mention of it in the POSIX document.  It seems that every
> package containing a script that runs ":" has an RC bug.  ;)

*cough* ;-)

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Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org)
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