Problem with ash -n non-zero length string test

[Mike Frysinger]

On Sunday 08 July 2007, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> On Sunday 08 July 2007 02:08, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > personally i dont think it has any place when writing POSIX compliant
> > code
>
> I was thinking of "Education": "Know there are different syntax to achieve
> the same goal. Use the most fitted depending on your constraints."
> May be one time someone gets on a "broken" shell, and (s)he will remember
> he saw such reference when (s)he sees his/her scripts are failing there
> when they used to work previously.

fair enough ... different people have different goals.  i'd take the position 
of just fixing the system/shell, but not everyone has that luxury.
-mike
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