dirinst comparing "X$action" with "Xdirinst" instead of $action with "dirinst"

Thomas Lange lange at informatik.uni-koeln.de
Mon Oct 2 11:25:52 CEST 2006


>>>>> On Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:31:08 +0200, "Henning Sprang" <henning_sprang at gmx.de> said:

    > if [ X$action = Xdirinst ]; then
This is normal shell coding practice. It helps if $action is not defined
at all. Then the test without quotes "" around an undefined variable
will give a syntax error.

-- 
regards Thomas



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