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diff --git a/doc/eltest.html b/doc/eltest.html index f2d5bf5..208b0ab 100644 --- a/doc/eltest.html +++ b/doc/eltest.html @@ -31,13 +31,13 @@ exit status. <p> <tt>eltest</tt> acts as the generic POSIX -<a href="https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/test.html">test</a> utility, +<a href="https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/utilities/test.html">test</a> utility, but it diverges from the specification on how it parses ambiguous arguments: see below. </p> <p> <tt>eltest</tt> supports all the standard -<a href="https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/test.html">test</a> +<a href="https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/utilities/test.html">test</a> operands, plus all the extensions from <a href="https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/test.1.html">GNU test</a>, plus a few extensions from the <tt>test</tt> builtin from @@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ valid, always returns the result of the expression no matter how complex it is. <p> <tt>eltest</tt> <strong>is not</strong> suitable as a Single Unix -<a href="https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/test.html">test</a> +<a href="https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/utilities/test.html">test</a> program, due to the way it disambiguates between arguments and operators, see below. However, if you never use arguments that start with a backslash, or that have the same name as an existing operator, then @@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ in order to match whole strings, you must anchor <em>pattern</em> with <h2> Argument disambiguation </h2> <p> - Unlike <a href="https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/test.html">test</a>, + Unlike <a href="https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/utilities/test.html">test</a>, which has different fixed syntax trees depending on the number of arguments it receives and has undefined behaviour when called with more than 5 arguments, <tt>eltest</tt> accepts any number of arguments and builds its syntax trees on the fly. This means that expressions such @@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ when it reads the second <tt>-n</tt> it exits with a syntax error. Doing otherwise would result in a combinatory explosion of possible syntax trees, making it easy for users to trigger unbounded RAM consumption, and turning a simple utility into a programming nightmare. This is why POSIX -<a href="https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/test.html">test</a> +<a href="https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/utilities/test.html">test</a> is so restricted. But we don't want the same restrictions. </p> |