Re: test or [ does not handle parentheses as stated in manpage

[Chet Ramey]

On 9/6/22 1:51 AM, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 06, 2022 at 12:03:20AM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> > On Sep 05 2022, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> >
> > > neither did using \(
> > > instead of (, and neither did putting spaces around the parentheses.
> >
> > You need to do both.
>
> Ah, thanks!  May I suggest that adding this information as a note in
> the manpage would be very helpful?

The man page says, in the `test' description:

"Each operator and operand must be a separate argument."

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