GNU bug report logs - #33097
test has filetest -a but man page doesn't list it

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Martin Schulte <gnu <at> schrader-schulte.de>

Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2018 21:00:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: confirmed, fixed

Merged with 15278

Done: Bernhard Voelker <mail <at> bernhard-voelker.de>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #42 received at control <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>
To: 15278 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#15278: -a vs -e
Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2018 02:08:24 -0600

tags 15278 fixed
forcemerge 33097 15278
close 15278
stop

(triaging old bugs)

On 2013-09-05 10:45 a.m., Eric Blake wrote:
[...]
> Coreutils therefore should fix its test to favor binary -a over unary
> -a, when there are three arguments and the first is !.


Just last week Bernhard committed
  test: remove support for the ambigous -a unary operator

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=88c32fa68ee7057744bfb6d41f6e8eb68801306f

So closing this as "fixed".

-assaf
This bug report was last modified 6 years and 266 days ago.

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