Martin Buchholz wrote:

> Purists will note we use
> 
> test -n "$foo"
> 
> instead of
> 
> test "x$foo" != "x"
> 
> 
> Hmmm.  The latter certainly does look more portable...but it's so ugly...

        I don't find it /that/ ugly. I actually find it almost more readable
than the former ;-)

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