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

[Chet Ramey]

On 5/24/21 10:27 PM, Christoph Anton Mitterer 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.

The `-a' and `-o' operators are included in the `test' builtin
documentation. They're not deprecated, per se -- they don't really come
into play unless test is given four or more arguments.

> Guess that's why bash doesn't even mention these operators nor ( ) in
> test?

It does.


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