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From: john@hopf.math.nwu.edu (John Franks)
Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug
Subject: Problem with test -n (core dumps)
Keywords: test
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Date: 2 Jul 89 20:28:20 GMT
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The following program core dumps.  I think it should  give  the  error
message  "test:  argument  expected." If $Y is quoted as it should be,
then the program runs but the -n option has the opposite behavior from
what  is  described  in  the  help file.  The -z option has the effect
which the help file attributes to the -n option.  The -n option  seems
to  have  no  function  (i.e.   "test  -n STRING" is the same as "test
STRING" ).  If this is true it could be removed.  

#bash version 1.01; run on Sun3, SunOS 4.03
Y=
if  test  -n $Y ; then echo "Ok"; fi



John Franks 	Dept of Math. Northwestern University
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