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Re: 'test' utility behavior question.


On 2010-08-30 20:31, Eric Blake wrote:
On 08/30/2010 11:27 AM, Oleksandr Gavenko wrote:
$ /bin/test -d && echo ok
ok
$ /bin/test -d '' && echo ok || echo must_be_error
must_be_error

Both of these results match POSIX. Remember, POSIX describes different behaviors for one argument than for two arguments (for the one-argument case, the string "-d" is non-empty, so the result must be 0; for the two-argument case, the string "-d" is a unary operator, and there is no directory named '').

if [ -d $dir ]; then

The bug is in your script. You forgot to use quoting or a bashism. Either of these fixes will correct your script (although the latter requires bash):

if [ -d "$dir" ]; then

if [[ -d $dir ]]; then

This is not cygwin-specific.

You right!

Sorry, I miss this when read POSIX:

1 argument:
Exit true (0) if $1 is not null; otherwise, exit false.

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