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Re: /etc/shells management



On Sun,  7 Sep 2003 11:58:03 -0500, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 06:08:06PM +0200, Thomas Hood wrote:
[...]
> > I have been using
> > 
> >     if [ "$var" ]; then
> >     fi
> 
> > I hope that's kosher too; otherwise I have a few scripts to fix.
> 
> In general, no.  If the contents of $var are a test operator, you'll get
> a syntax error.

Not in a POSIX-compliant sh.

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Michał Politowski -- mpol@charybda.icm.edu.pl
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