Even though POSIX.1 lists -a/-o as options to "test", they are marked "Obsolescent XSI". Scripts using these expressions should be converted as follow: test "$1" -a "$2" should be written as: test "$1" && test "$2" Likewise test "$1" -o "$2" should be written as: test "$1" test "$2" But note that, in test, -a has higher precedence than -o while "&&" and "||" have equal precedence in the shell. The reason for this is that the precedence rules were never well specified, and this made many sane-looking uses of "test -a/-o" problematic. For example, if $x is "=", these work according to POSIX (it's not portable, but in practice it's okay): $ test -z "$x" $ test -z "$x" && test a = b but this doesn't $ test -z "$x" -a a = b bash: test: too many arguments because it groups "test -n = -a" and is left with "a = b". Similarly, if $x is "-f", these $ test "$x" $ test "$x" || test c = d correctly adds an implicit "-n", but this fails: $ test "$x" -o c = d bash: test: too many arguments Signed-off-by: Elia Pinto <gitter.spiros@xxxxxxxxx> --- Inspired from this discussion http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/137056 contrib/examples/git-repack.sh | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/contrib/examples/git-repack.sh b/contrib/examples/git-repack.sh index f312405..96e3fed 100755 --- a/contrib/examples/git-repack.sh +++ b/contrib/examples/git-repack.sh @@ -76,8 +76,8 @@ case ",$all_into_one," in existing="$existing $e" fi done - if test -n "$existing" -a -n "$unpack_unreachable" -a \ - -n "$remove_redundant" + if test -n "$existing" && test -n "$unpack_unreachable" && \ + test -n "$remove_redundant" then # This may have arbitrary user arguments, so we # have to protect it against whitespace splitting -- 1.7.10.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html