|
| From: | Thomas Dickey |
| Subject: | Re: How can I get rid of dinkleberry autotools temp dirs? |
| Date: | Sat, 21 Jan 2006 19:40:53 -0500 (EST) |
On Sat, 21 Jan 2006, Bruce Korb wrote:
Now, I have a curiosity question. Why this (unchanged) construct:test -n "$tmp" && test -d "$tmp"and not just: test -d "$tmp" It is sufficient for every shell I know about. Even some pretty old ones. :)
Some old shells would match an empty $tmp with "." (I don't recall which, but did run into it). -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
| [Prev in Thread] | Current Thread | [Next in Thread] |