Programming :: Special Expression `-l STRING' For "test" Command?
Apr 21, 2010
I have searched and searched in regards to this documented 'special expression '-l STRING' for the 'test' command, and to no avail, have I found out why it does not work on my system.
The example always given is:
Code:
test -l abc -gt 1 && echo yes
And the returned result is:
Code:
bash: test: -l: unary operator expected
The documention is usually as follows:
Numeric tests
Numeric relationals. The arguments must be entirely numeric (possibly negative), or the special expression `-l STRING', which evaluates to the length of STRING. Then examples are given, including the one I provided above. Does anyone else have this issue of getting an error when trying this special expression of 'l STRING' ???
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#
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do
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Below is extract of my file:
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