[SLUG] If there's a competition for the most useless bash script...

Al Girling al21 at firenet.uk.com
Wed Apr 23 09:41:03 BST 2003


On Tue, 22 Apr 2003 23:33:16 +0100
Jonathan Worthington wrote:

> You can probably guess the error is there.  The -n (Null) check doesn't seem
> to want to work...  Ah well, we can always do it by checking number of
> arguments...  Replace the above with:-
> 
> # If no char is entered set it to default (#).
> if [ $# -lt 3 ]; then
>      CHAR='#'
> fi

This works for me!  Well done!

I know you think this has little value, but to me it give another working example of bash scripting to experiment with.

Cheers

Al




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