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Old 06-10-2011
recent test -e ksh incompatibility in hpux?
On a very new (11.31) hpux machine, I can no longer execute shell fragements like:

if [ -e .profile.foo ] ; then
. .profile.foo
fi
and get "ksh: test: argument expected"

if I convert this to -d or -f as appropriate (which I've not had to do on older versions of hpux (11.23) nor any other unix platform I've tried (aix, linux, sun)).

Is -e something that is considered a non-portable ksh construct?
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Old 06-10-2011
I thought ksh used built in test -- try bash, it has it! My hpux (old) man test has no -e, -e fails like that. But /bin/test likes it! sh -c likes it!
Last edited by DGPickett; 06-10-2011 at 05:27 PM..
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Old 06-10-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by DGPickett
I thought ksh used built in test
The shell message is from test, and yes this is probably the builtin. Regardless, the question remains. I've not had any such problem with ksh on other Unixes, nor the older hpux versions.

The suggestion to use bash is not very helpful, since it's not installed on this machine.
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Old 06-10-2011
It is easy to get from the uk hp binary archive. Porting And Archive Centre For HP-UX
ksh93 looks OK. try dtksh from the CDE dir, it's ksh93+.
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Old 06-10-2011
I'm not positive that it's actually using the test built-in. On some shells [ ] isn't a built in while [[ ]] is. What if you use [[ ]]?
# 6  
Old 06-10-2011
The [ ] is the official form supported by posix and -e is supposed to work. So the test is standard and portable. Something is broken on your new system. I would check with HP to see if a patch exists.
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Old 06-10-2011
Google is your friend: IT Resource Center forums - -e option not working in ksh!!!! - This thread has been closed
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