On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 07:06:42PM -0600, Richard Troth wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, John Summerfield wrote:
> > I suspect it won't run on a stock non-Linux UNIX host (Solaris, AIX, HP,
> > ...). OTOH, we're talking about Linux.
>
> Why would we code things for Linux
> that are intentionally incompatible with other UNIX?
> This is a really bad idea!

Because 'test 'x' = "x$var";' is less readable than 'if [ -z "$var" ];

Sometimes I bother. Sometimes I don't.

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