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From: wagner@iaoobelix.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.4bsd
Subject: Bug/Feature in `test' - (nf)
Message-ID: <6200001@iaoobelix.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 2-Apr-87 04:37:00 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr  2 04:37:00 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 4-Apr-87 19:03:26 EST
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Nf-From: iaoobelix!wagner    Apr  2 10:37:00 1987

[ Hey, lineeater! This line is for you! ]

The following might be a bug, it might be a feature. Anyway, it is one of the
little trivial problems one faces when porting shell scripts from a Sun OS3.2
to a VAX BSD4.2/uVAX ULTRIX.

The file `try' contains the following:

	#! /bin/sh
	if [ "$1" = "-d" ] 
	then
	    echo ok
	fi

The I typed in:

	% try 8
	bad
	% try -d

What did I get??? Guess!

On the Sun (OS 3.2):	try -d => ok
On the VAX (BSD 4.2):	try -d => bad
On the uVAX (ULTRIX):	try -d => bad

At least one of the three machines above did something wrong! My question to
net.land is "which one?"

It is just annoying to use workarounds like putting a dummy char in front of
each string or writing cases, etc...

Thanx 1e6 in advance,
Juergen Wagner,		      USENET: ...seismo!unido!iaoobel!wagner
("Gandalf")			or	  ...!pyramid!iaoobel!wagner

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