Subject: bug#24894: coreutils 8.4 : `test -s` without argument does not return an error

From: Pádraig Brady <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2016 16:51:33 +0000

On 07/11/16 12:58, BAECKEROOT Alain wrote:
> Dear gnu-coreutils team
> 
> We had a funny problem caused by `test` which does return "0" when an option is given without any EXPRESSION 
> 
> The man page says (near line 15 or so) : 
>       An  omitted  EXPRESSION defaults to false.

It's a bit of a gotcha, but not a bug. I updated:
http://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/coreutils-gotchas.html#test

thanks,
Pádraig