On Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 07:50:29AM +0200, lejeczek via CentOS wrote:
Hi guys.
I cannot wrap my hear around this:
-> $ unset _Val; test -z ${_Val}; echo $?
0
-> $ unset _Val; test -n ${_Val}; echo $?
0
-> $ _Val=some; test -n ${_Val}; echo $?
0
What is this!?
How should two different, opposite tests give the same result
Is there some bash option which affects that and if so, then
what would be the purpose of such nonsense?
many thanks, L.
Quoted $_Val expands to a null, zero length string.
Unquoted $_Val expands to nothing which is different.
An alternative test with double square brackets would
give you your expected results as it automatically
quotes unquoted variables.
$ unset _Val ; [[ -n $_Val ]] ; echo $?
jl
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