Re: Bash Bugs

[Chet Ramey]

n3d gonzales wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I used my old script to my new machine and their's a bug on it.  I have
> attached the very simplified script. It will determine whether the file
> has space or not. The result is different.

I'm not really sure what the aim of your script is given its logic, but
test -n is supposed to return failure when presented an empty string.
It does on my systems.  Are you sure that the empty lines are really
empty?

Chet

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