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