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Message #8 received at 20130 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Robson Júnior <robsonjrce <at> gmail.com>, 
 20130 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#20130: GNU test behaviour
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 15:27:02 -0700

On 03/17/2015 02:23 PM, Robson Júnior wrote:
> `test -e` with no filename being passed to. It returns 0, although it 
> should be 1. 

No, 'test -e' should exit with status 0, because '-e' is a nonempty 
string.  In general, 'test X' exits with status 0 if and only if X is 
nonempty.  POSIX requires this behavior; see:

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

and search for "1 argument".

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