On Sat, 17 May 2008, Michael Fisher wrote:
> On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 1:37 PM, James Forte <james@magna.net> wrote:
>
>> quote the $1 as in "$1"
> I tried putting the $1 in double quotes ("$1") and tried the but no
> luck...would it be easier to determine if the argument ($1) exists or not?
> If so, how would I do that?
if [ "z$1" = z ] ; then
printf "$1 is blank"
else
printf "$1 is not blank"
fi
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