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. -- Tzafrir Cohen +---------------------------+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------+
