On Tue, Sep 06, 2022 at 09:25:36AM -0400, Chet Ramey wrote: > 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."
Yes, but "(" and ")" are not usually considered to be operators or operands. Julian