Re: [TCLUG:2032] confused with bash script

[Michael Hicks <hick0088@tc.umn.edu>]

> You can change that by replacing your iffs with something like:
> if [ "a$datafile" = "a$QUERY" ]
> 
> that way even if datafile or QUERY are null/blank strings the expression will
> evaluate
> to at leaset "a" = "a".

Umm.. Can't you just do a simple thing like this:

#!/bin/sh

QUERY=something
#datafile=""    ; So 'datafile' doesn't get set at all..

if [ "$datafile" = "$QUERY" ]; then
  echo Yep.
else
  echo Nope.
fi

effectively testing ( "" = "something" )

Seems to work on my system..  But maybe I'm weird.. ;-)
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