Re: how to (safely) escape an arbitrary string for use in PS1

[Lawrence Velázquez]

On Mon, May 24, 2021, at 10:27 PM, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> On Mon, 2021-05-24 at 11:48 +0900, Koichi Murase wrote:
> >  Also, "-o" is obsoleted in POSIX.
> Interesting... I've never made it down to the rational section of test
> and till now never really thought about the issues with -a and -o.
> 
> They should probably put a bigger warning at the main section of the
> documentation.
> 
> Guess that's why bash doesn't even mention these operators nor ( ) in
> test?

It does.

https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Bourne-Shell-Builtins.html#index-test

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