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Old 03-17-2009
melanie_pfefer melanie_pfefer is offline
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check if a variable is not affected

Hi all,

to check that a variable is not empty, I usually do:

if [ -z "$a" ]; then...
or
if [ -n "$a" ]; then...


what if I have a serie of variables and want to do the same test on all of them. How to do this in a single if statement?

thank you