we might need this sles10 stuff latersles10-bash

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diff --git a/scratch/bash-3.1-postpatch/examples/functions/ksh-compat-test b/scratch/bash-3.1-postpatch/examples/functions/ksh-compat-test
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+#
+# replacements for test/[ that do arithmetic expansion on the operands to
+# the arithmetic operators, like ksh.
+#
+function test()
+{
+        local -i n1 n3
+        case "$#" in
+        3)      case "$2" in
+                -lt|-gt|-eq|-ne|-le|-ge)        n1=$(( $1 ))
+                                                n3=$(( $3 ))
+                                                builtin test "$n1" $2 "$n3"
+                                                return $?;;
+                *)      builtin test "$@" ;;
+                esac;;                                                          
+        *)      builtin test "$@" ;;
+        esac
+}
+
+function [()
+{
+        local -i n1 n3
+        case "$#" in
+        4)      case "$2" in
+                -lt|-gt|-eq|-ne|-le|-ge)        n1=$(( $1 ))
+                                                n3=$(( $3 ))
+                                                builtin [ "$n1" $2 "$n3" ]
+                                                return $?;;
+                *)      builtin [ "$@" ;;
+                esac;;                                                          
+        *)      builtin [ "$@" ;;
+        esac
+}
+
+q=7
+
+[ q -lt 10 ]
+echo $?
+[ $q -lt 10 ]
+echo $?