Hi,
On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 09:17:21AM +0100, Philip Hands wrote:
> The test gets the last character of the file, and puts it in quotes
> after removing new-lines -- which basically means that test fails if
> there's a newline there, or if the file's empty, since that gives you:
>
> [ "" ]
Thanks, I learned something new today - from "man test":
string True if string is not the null string.
... never really noticed this line in 20+ years of shell scripting :-)
To add some useful content - I've checked the oldest (and most exotic)
systems I have around, and both SCO Open Server 5.0 and AIX document
the same thing, so it should be truly portable.
gert
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