On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 07:10 +0200, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
> Tuesday 30 May 2006 06:48 skrev Iain Buchanan:
> > I see this [ "x" != "x$BLAH" ] test all over the place, especially in
> > the /etc/init.d scripts. Maybe -z is not standardised or something?
> > Dunno why people use it.
>
> Having searched a little further I have been able to locate a few scripts
> that
> uses this in my bin folders. Common for those scripts are that they are sh
> scripts and not bash scripts. Looking at 'man sh' you find no -z or -n but
> they are in 'man bash'.
Ah, I was looking in /etc/init.d wondering why I couldn't find it :) I
have bad RAM in my head. I guess sh scripts can be run by sh and bash,
and probably other --sh variants. Not that that helps with this topic,
I was just thinking aloud :)
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