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Re: /etc/shells management



Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> wrote:
> 
> I do continue to think that:
> 
> if [ -n "$var" ]
> 
> is more readable than
> 
> if [ "${var+set}" = "set" ]

These two constructs will yield different results when var is set but
empty.
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