Shell scripting - suppressing and eliminating error messages

[Jonathan Chen]

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 05:36:26PM -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote:
> I'm using the following construction in a pkg-deinstall script for a port I 
> maintain:
> 
> if ( ${BATCH} ); then

This should read:

    if [ -n "${BATCH}" ] ; then

-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc at chen.org.nz>
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