It is not use elsewhere, and I have learned that shells implement their own version of if test(1) because they add flags that can only be implemented inside the shell, so adding new functionality to test(1) is meaningless even if the functionality is useful.
On Tue, 27 Dec 2016 11:52:14 +0100 Laslo Hunhold <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 28 Mar 2016 23:50:42 +0200 > Mattias Andrée <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hey Mattias, > > > This is an non-standard extension. > > > > It tests with a file exists, is a directory, and is > > empty. Tests against non-existing files, > > non-directories and non-empty directories causes exit > > status 1. > > > > It is a sane alternative to writing > > > > test -z "$(ls -A "$1")" > > I think as with any discussion about adding nonstandard > extensions, the relevant question is wether this is > widely used out there. Can you give some examples were it > is used? > > Cheers > > Laslo >
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