-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 6/17/13 1:27 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > simple test code: > unset foo > printf -v foo "" > echo ${foo+set} > > that does not display "set". seems to have been this way since the feature > was added in bash-3.1.
printf returns immediately if the format string is null. It has always been implemented this way. Chet - -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlHIqEwACgkQu1hp8GTqdKuxWgCfWco3J9SOm/N+pQh8BNC64be4 ngkAn2d4BsB2lkvRpRTCIK5iqZgEguo+ =92+u -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----