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From: Andrew Ruder <andy@aeruder.net>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] cmd_nvedit.c: Add env exists command
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 09:30:58 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131023143058.GA9685@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5267D536.2020605@gmail.com>

On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 06:55:02AM -0700, James Chargin wrote:
> I have, more recently, been using scripting of the form
> 
> 	if test "X" != "X${var}"; then
> 		echo defined
> 	else
> 		echo undefined
> 	fi

Thanks for the feedback.

I was attempting to do something like that originally but was hitting
problems related to the expansion which I'm still tracking down:

   WRONG:
   $ set var
   $ test "x${var}" = "x" && echo undefined
   undefined
   $ set var 1
   $ test "x${var}" = "x" && echo undefined
   $ set var "1; 2; 3"
   $ test "x${var}" = "x" && echo undefined
>> undefined

It DOES seem to work a lot better with != as you mentioned above
though...

   RIGHT:
   $ set var
   $ test "x${var}" != "x" && echo defined
   $ set var 1
   $ test "x${var}" != "x" && echo defined
   defined
   $ set var "1; 2; 3"
   $ test "x${var}" != "x" && echo defined
   defined

- Andy

  reply	other threads:[~2013-10-23 14:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-23  0:07 [U-Boot] [PATCH] cmd_nvedit.c: Add env exists command Andrew Ruder
2013-10-23 13:55 ` James Chargin
2013-10-23 14:30   ` Andrew Ruder [this message]
2013-11-08 22:29 ` [U-Boot] " Tom Rini

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