From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (list@euclid.skiles.gatech.edu [130.207.146.50]) by melb.werple.net.au (8.7.5/8.7.3/2) with ESMTP id DAA21630 for ; Tue, 11 Jun 1996 03:30:37 +1000 (EST) Received: (from list@localhost) by euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA25613; Mon, 10 Jun 1996 13:19:51 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 13:19:51 -0400 (EDT) Sender: hniksic@public.srce.hr To: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu (ZSH Workers Mailing List) Subject: Re: [ -z $FOO ] seems broken in beta13 References: <7884.199606101703@stone.dcs.warwick.ac.uk> From: Hrvoje Niksic Date: 10 Jun 1996 19:18:20 +0200 In-Reply-To: Zefram's message of Mon, 10 Jun 1996 18:03:37 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: Gnus v5.2.14/XEmacs 19.13 Resent-Message-ID: <"cfwtE.0.7G6.sa5ln"@euclid> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1307 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu 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? -- hniksic@srce.hr | Student of electrical engineering hniksic@fly.cc.fer.hr | University of Zagreb, Croatia ------------------------------------------------------------------ `VI' - An editor used by those heretics that don't subscribe to the Emacs religion.