You are correct: /usr/bin/\[ --help gives the desired output.
When I ran 'which [' it stated that the /usr/bin/[ was what was running, and so I presumed it was in bash. Also, the error message says 'bash' So, all in all, a bit counfusing. Cheers, Daniel On 22 September 2015 at 10:39, Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com> wrote: > On 09/22/2015 08:22 AM, Daniel Simeone wrote: > > > > Description: > > According to the joint man page for '[' and 'test', '[ --version' > > and '[ --help' should give appropriate output, while 'test' should not. > > You're probably reading the coreutils man page, rather than the bash man > page. > > Bash has not (yet) implemented support for ANY --options to its > builtins, although there has been talk on the list of doing so for > future versions (especially since ksh has already done it). If you are > executing the shell builtins instead of the coreutils versions, then the > behavior you see is expected and not a bug. > > To see the behavior mentioned in the coreutils man page, be sure you run > the coreutils version of [, as in: > > env [ --help > or > /bin/[ --help > > -- > Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 > Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org > > -- --Daniel Simeone PhD candidate, Candidat au doctorat, Université McGill University
