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.

    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.

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

Regards,
Alexey.

Cheers,

Alex

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