[ILUG] Figured it out, I believe

[Kevin Lyda]

On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 04:27, Braun Brelin <bbrelin at gmail.com> wrote:
> After some experimentation, it seems that if I escape the parentheses, bash
> does the right
> thing.  However, does anyone know if this is also true for original Bourne
> shell?
[...]
> test \( expr1 -o expr2 \) -a expr3

I think that works in the original shell.  Not sure about the original
test however.  Can't remember if it always supported parens or the
-o/-a operators.  This will run on older systems

test expr1 || test expr2 && test expr3

would work as you expect and the precedence rules would do what you want here.

Kevin


>
> Thanks,
>
> Braun
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