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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting check a list of vars Post 302237131 by audiophile on Wednesday 17th of September 2008 04:25:32 AM
Old 09-17-2008
check a list of vars

I have about 20 different variables that I need to check for null values then replace with a specific string if they are null. I've been doing this via 20 different if then statements like this:

Code:
if [ "$VAR1" = "" ]; then
WIND="UUU"
fi

Is there a more elegant way to do this? The vars aren't sequential in their name by the way. Thanks for the suggestions as always!
 

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