bf> I thought that systems deriving from OpenSolaris (e.g. Illumos,
...
However, testing in an empty directory on a system without the
upated ksh93 this looks ok to me:
Bob, what you wrote before (approx. a year ago) is here:
https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=42529
On 11 Dec 2021 23:19, Moritz Klammler wrote:
> An alternative trick which I have used in my code and found much less
> disturbing is to prepend an arbitrary, hopefully non-existent, file name
> so the list of arguments will never be empty even if the variable is.
>
> rm -f NOTFOUND $(VAR)
i
bf> I thought that systems deriving from OpenSolaris (e.g. Illumos,
...
However, testing in an empty directory on a system without the
upated ksh93 this looks ok to me:
Bob, what you wrote before (approx. a year ago) is here:
https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=42529