On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Tom London wrote: > New fixfiles has lines like: > if [ $1 != "" ]; then > > These produce shell errors. I think they could be: > if [ x$1 != "x" ]; then isn't it sufficient to just check whether [ "$1" != "" ] there's also always: [ -n "$1" ] (IIRC, checking whether a string is non-zero length) rday