Re: [bash 4] 'test -v 1' is never true

[Alejandro Colomar]

Hi Alexey,

On 11/27/22 12:41, Alexey wrote:
> On 2022-11-26 21:45, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> > That was my gut; thanks!  I'll workaround with $#.
>
> I could suggest you to use for clarity another construction:
> [[ ${1+isset} ]] || echo "not set"
>
> Here "isset" is just for readability. You could place any other string literal 
> there.

I actually find that very confusing.  What feature is it using?  I couldn't find 
it with `info bash | less` then `/\+`.

    test $# -ge 1

has the benefit that it's just a sed(1) away from my old

    test -v 1

And it only needs the following to be understood:

    man test | grep -A1 ' -ge '
    man sh | grep '   # '

The old version (test -v 1) required:

    help test | grep ' -v '
    man sh | sed -n '/^   Positional/,/^$/p'

Both are easy to find.

> Regards,
> Alexey.

Cheers,

Alex

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