On Monday 19 October 2009, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:
>On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett AT verizon DOT 
>net> 
wrote:
>> I'll try that, but IIRC if the dir is empty, ls still returns a linefeed.
>> brb.
>> Nope, tried with !='' and !='\n', with almost the same result, the diff
>> being that now the error message on the console is minus the ending ]
>> now.
>>
>> ./flush.sh: line 173: [20091019011512: command not found
>
>The whitespace is significant in the command I showed:
>
>if [ `/bin/ls /dumps` != "" ]
>
Except that this time you use dbl-quotes.  I used singles as you did in the 
first reply, and it worked, with the added white space around the [ and ] as 
Paul pointed out.

 It may be that due to a proportionally spaced font here, that I missed that 
white space detail.

Which is the most correct? '' or ""

>btw, the shell strips leading and trailing whitespace, so don't worry
>about the newline.

ISTR reading as much, but CRS is becoming an issue. :)

>Dustin
>
Thanks again.

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