On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 11:58:03AM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 06:08:06PM +0200, Thomas Hood wrote: > > On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 17:23, Branden Robinson wrote: > > > Man, that's ugly. I use: > > > > > > if [ -n "$var" ]; then > > > fi > > > I have been using > > > > if [ "$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.
POSIX requires this not to be the case, because of the argument-counting algorithm that 'test' is supposed to follow. See http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/utilities/test.html. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]