Re: test -n "${var+set}"?

[Derek Robert Price]

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Larry Jones wrote:

>Derek Robert Price writes:
>
>>Got it now.  I read the bash man page as stating that this construct
>>wouldn't echo "set" for a variable set to the empty string.
>
>
>That's because the man page is talking about :+ rather than +:
>
>    When not performing substring expansion, bash tests for a
>    parameter that is unset or null; omitting the colon results in a
>    test only for a parameter that is unset.


I see it now.  Thanks.  :)

Derek

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