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From: Clifton Ray Hodges <desk <at> clifton-hodges.com>
To: 9211 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#9211: test -l
Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2011 10:07:36 -0400

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Hi,

In the test manual for the 'test' command, it states that:
"INTEGER may also be -l STRING, which evaluates to the length of 
STRING"
and even in the info page it gives an example of:

test -l abc -gt 1 && echo yes

but that command, as well as any in scripts, reports an error of:

bash: test: -l: unary operator expected

This has been the case since as far back as least the summer of 
2009 when after I shortly started using a Linux Operating System 
- that was PCLinuxOS back then, but now I am using openSUSE in 
the past year (currently version 11.4 KDE).

Regards,
Clifton

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