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Re: test (builtin) dumps core

X-seq: zsh-workers 2007
From: "Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Sam Falkner <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: test (builtin) dumps core
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 1996 17:42:11 -0700
In-reply-to: Sam Falkner <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> "test (builtin) dumps core" (Aug 15, 4:42pm)
References: <ii791bg9smv.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-to: schaefer@xxxxxxx

On Aug 15,  4:42pm, Sam Falkner wrote:
} Subject: test (builtin) dumps core
}
} try this (don't ask me why! ;-):
} 
} % test zsh -gt 0
} 
} this pauses a bit, and then dumps core.
} [...]
} if i put any other string there besides `zsh', i haven't been able to
} reproduce.  zsh is magic?  who knows.

The way the `test' builtin is written, this is (almost) the same as writing

	test $zsh -gt 0


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