From: Ken Thompson <ken@research.uucp>
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1979 20:51:51 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: Research V7 development
X-Git-Tag: Bell-32V^2~187
X-Git-Url: https://git.subgeniuskitty.com/unix-history/.git/commitdiff_plain/87efcf5174563a91e0a2d57ff959c0a8a5f08108

Research V7 development
Work on file usr/man/man1/test.1

Co-Authored-By: Dennis Ritchie <dmr@research.uucp>
Synthesized-from: v7
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+.TH TEST 1 
+.SH NAME
+test \-  condition command
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.B test
+expr
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+.I test
+evaluates the expression
+.IR expr ,
+and if its value is true then returns zero exit status; otherwise, a
+non zero exit status is returned.
+.I test
+returns a non zero exit if there are no arguments.
+.PP
+The following primitives are used to construct
+.IR expr .
+.TP 9n
+.BR \-r " file"
+true if the file exists and is readable.
+.TP 
+.BR \-w " file"
+true if the file exists and is writable.
+.TP 
+.BR \-f " file"
+true if the file exists and is not a directory.
+.TP 
+.BR \-d " file"
+true if the file exists and is a directory.
+.TP 
+.BR \-s " file"
+true if the file exists and has a size greater than zero.
+.TP 
+.BR \-t " [ fildes ]"
+true if the open file whose file descriptor number is
+.I fildes
+(1 by default)
+is associated with a terminal device.
+.TP 
+.BR \-z " s1"
+true if the length of string
+.I s1
+is zero.
+.TP 
+.BR \-n " s1"
+true if the length of the string
+.I s1
+is nonzero.
+.TP 
+.RB s1 " = " s2
+true
+if the strings
+.I s1
+and
+.I s2
+are equal.
+.TP 
+.RB s1 " != " s2
+true
+if the strings
+.I s1
+and
+.I s2
+are not equal.
+.TP 
+s1
+true if
+.I s1
+is not the null string.
+.TP 
+.RB n1 " \-eq " n2
+true if the integers
+.I n1
+and
+.I n2
+are algebraically equal.
+Any of the comparisons
+.BR \-ne ,
+.BR \-gt ,
+.BR \-ge ,
+.BR \-lt ,
+or
+.BR \-le
+may be used in place of
+.BR \-eq .
+.PP
+These primaries may be combined with the
+following operators:
+.TP 
+.B  !
+unary negation operator
+.TP 
+.B  \-a
+binary
+.I and
+operator
+.TP 
+.B  \-o
+binary
+.I or
+operator
+.TP 
+.BR "( " "expr" " )"
+parentheses for grouping.
+.PP
+.B \-a
+has higher precedence than
+.B \-o.
+Notice that all the operators and flags are separate
+arguments to
+.IR test .
+Notice also that parentheses are meaningful
+to the Shell and must be escaped.
+.SH "SEE ALSO"
+sh(1), find(1)