On 04/09/2015 12:49 AM, Paul Eggert wrote: > Eric Blake wrote: >> test ${var+y} > > Hah! Here's something that's one byte shorter: > > ${var+:} [ ] > > It may be clearer to write it more in the style you used: > > [ ${var+y} ] > > Both of these work with Solaris 10 /bin/sh.
But both become more difficult to express in autoconf, where [] also has meaning to m4 quoting. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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