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/bin/sh: built-in "test" command and -eq, -ne etc.
Built-in test command shows the warning if arguments of -eq, -ne etc.
operators are not numbers but doesn't if arguments are an empty string.
0 ~>/bin/sh -c 'test 1 -eq 1'
0 ~>/bin/sh -c 'test 1 -eq a'
test: a: bad number
2 ~>/bin/sh -c 'test a -eq 1'
test: a: bad number
2 ~>/bin/sh -c 'test "" -eq 1'
1 ~>
I propose to display a warning and make an exit status
equal to 2 in the latter case too. bash and dash works this way.
And I think it is useful for debugging.
If nobody is against it I'll send a PR.
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Best regards, Aleksey Cheusov.
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