Subject: Re: bug#33097: test has filetest -a but man page doesn't list it

From: Martin Schulte <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2018 10:39:21 +0200

Hello again!

Paul Eggert wrote:
> Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> > I don't think we can remove that primary without breaking some
> > scripts, so it's probably best to document it.
> 
> I have the opposite impression. Any scripts using this confusing -a
> operator are already broken, and we should phase it out. Not that
> anybody actually *uses* coreutils "test -a".

Maybe even more important than the previous arguments - there's no
filetest "-a" in the POSIX standard:

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

Best regards,

Martin