On 10 February 2011 18:56, Dr. David Kirkby <david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote:
> I know its considered bad practice to check for an empty string with
> something like:
>
> if [ "$STR" = "" ] ; then
>
> but what shells do actually break with this, and under what conditions?
>
>
> I was proposing someone change a test like that to
>
> if [ "x$STR" =  ] ; then

Oops, I meant to put

if [ "x$STR" =  x ] ; then

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