Bug in bash-1.02

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1 total messages Started by Brian Fox Fri, 04 Aug 1989 15:01

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Author: Brian Fox
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 1989 15:01

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   Date: Thu, 3 Aug 89 17:13:08 PDT
   From: Kayvan Sylvan <kayvan@mrspoc.transact.com>
   Sender: kayvan@mrspoc.transact.com

   Problem is succinctly stated:

   In bourne shell. I'm in a directory containing a file called 'ho'.

   $ if [ ! -f ho -a ! -f ho ] ; then echo ho ; else echo YUP ; fi
   YUP
   $

   In bash:

   bash$ if [ ! -f ho -a ! -f ho ] ; then echo ho ; else echo YUP ; fi
   [: too many arguments
   YUP
   bash$

   This causes numerous shell scripts to fail.

			   ---Kayvan
   ---
   Kayvan Sylvan @ Transact Software, Inc. -*-  Mountain View, CA (415) 961-6112
   Internet: kayvan@Transact.COM -*- UUCP: ...!{apple,pyramid,mips}!mrspoc!kayvan

Thanks.  This problem pointed out to me before, (and a fix given) by
Chet Ramey (chet@pirate.cwru.edu).  The problem is the precedence of
`!'.

brian

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