From: Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>
To: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu (ZSH Workers Mailing List)
Subject: Re: [ -z $FOO ] seems broken in beta13
Date: 10 Jun 1996 19:18:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <kigennnlgrn.fsf@jagor.srce.hr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Zefram's message of Mon, 10 Jun 1996 18:03:37 +0100 (BST)
Zefram (A.Main@dcs.warwick.ac.uk) wrote:
>
> >I use [ -z $TERM ] to check for terminal settings, and since we revved up
> >from 2.5, I'm now forced to use $+TERM.
> >
> >Now I get "argument expected". Is this correct?
>
> Yes. If $TERM is empty, then $TERM will be removed from the command
> line completely, leaving `[ -z ]`, which is a syntax error. If you use
> "$TERM" (note the quotes), then the result will be `[ -z "" ]`, which
> is legal.
I thought you got this behaviour only by turning on shwordsplit?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1996-06-10 17:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-06-10 16:35 Clint Olsen
1996-06-10 17:03 ` Zefram
1996-06-10 17:18 ` Hrvoje Niksic [this message]
[not found] ` <hniksic@srce.hr>
1996-06-10 19:41 ` Bart Schaefer
1996-06-10 17:34 ` Zoltan Hidvegi
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