On Fri, 08 Sep 2006 03:59:51 +0200 Erich Schubert <er...@debian.org> wrote:
> Hi,
> > I worry though that the tool might be test(1). These seem like fairly
> > good candidates to add to test, especially dirempty.
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> Definitely test should have had this functionality.
> However people will expect test to behave the same on all systems, so
> I'm not sure adding some non-POSIX extensions to test is a good idea.
> People will write scripts and use test, and then it won't work on other
> systems. If it's another utility, then it will be much more obvious that
> the tool might not exist on other systems.
> Furthermore some shells (busybox?) might be using a built-in test, and
> that wouldn't have this functionality then.
>
> best regards,
> Erich Schubert
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