Hi all, A common workaround for this is to use
[ "x$var" == "x" ] instead of [ -z "$var" ] and [ "x$var" != "x" ] instead of [ -n "$var" ] which doesn't exhibit the mentioned problem. Regards, Aleksandar Alina Friedrichsen wrote: > Hi! > > >> Thanks for explaining.. this makes perfectly sense and would be right if >> the metacharacter hadn't been enclosed in quotes. This should help the >> interpreter on its feet again.. shouldn't it? >> > > No the test utility or it's alias [ is designed as a normal external command > like every other command line tool in UNIX. > > instead of > x='=' > if [ -n "$x" ]; then > true > fi > you can write > x='=' > if /usr/bin/test -n "$x"; then # or maybe /bin/test > true > fi > > The quotes aren't passed to it like to every other command line tool. > > There are 2 Arguments, argument 1 is -n and argument 2 is =, that are all > informations that are passed to test, no quotes. > > Regards > Alina > _______________________________________________ > openwrt-devel mailing list > openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org > https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel > > > _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
