Package: dash Version: 0.5.12-6 Severity: normal Tags: upstream dash supposedly implements test s1 < s2 and test s1 > s2 for string comparisons. A cursory glance at [0], [1] and [2] seems to confirm this.
Anyway the shell redirection seems to take precedence so that the test is not actually performed. > dash $ type test test is a shell builtin $ ls -l bar ls: cannot access 'bar': No such file or directory $ test "foo" < "bar" dash: 2: cannot open bar: No such file $ test "foo" > "bar" $ ls -l bar -rw-r--r-- 1 gpiero gpiero 0 Sep 2 12:51 bar As a side note, '<' and '>' are not mandated by POSIX [3]. Thanks, Gian Piero. [0] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/dash/dash.git/tree/src/dash.1 [1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/dash/dash.git/tree/src/bltin/test.1 [2] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/dash/dash.git/tree/src/bltin/test.c (STRLT and STRGT) [3] https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/test.html -- System Information: Debian Release: trixie/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 5.19.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: OpenRC (via /run/openrc), PID 1: init LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages dash depends on: ii debianutils 5.11 ii dpkg 1.22.0 ii libc6 2.37-7 dash recommends no packages. dash suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
