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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Shellscripting -z option Post 303037905 by cokedude on Friday 16th of August 2019 04:40:34 PM
Old 08-16-2019
Shellscripting -z option

Can someone explain the -z option in shellscripting.

I did this. When I was in both ksh and bash it echoed back hi.

Code:
#!/bin/ksh

if [ -z "$BASH_VERSION" ]
then
    echo hi

fi

When I echoed $BASH_VERSION in bash it gave a version. When I echoed $BASH_VERSION in ksh it was blank.

I thought -z was only true if the length of the string is 0? This is what my man page says.

Code:
-z string = True if the length of the string is 0.

 

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RBASH(1)						      General Commands Manual							  RBASH(1)

NAME
rbash - restricted bash, see bash(1) RESTRICTED SHELL
If bash is started with the name rbash, or the -r option is supplied at invocation, the shell becomes restricted. A restricted shell is used to set up an environment more controlled than the standard shell. It behaves identically to bash with the exception that the follow- ing are disallowed or not performed: o changing directories with cd o setting or unsetting the values of SHELL, PATH, ENV, or BASH_ENV o specifying command names containing / o specifying a filename containing a / as an argument to the . builtin command o specifying a filename containing a slash as an argument to the -p option to the hash builtin command o importing function definitions from the shell environment at startup o parsing the value of SHELLOPTS from the shell environment at startup o redirecting output using the >, >|, <>, >&, &>, and >> redirection operators o using the exec builtin command to replace the shell with another command o adding or deleting builtin commands with the -f and -d options to the enable builtin command o using the enable builtin command to enable disabled shell builtins o specifying the -p option to the command builtin command o turning off restricted mode with set +r or set +o restricted. These restrictions are enforced after any startup files are read. When a command that is found to be a shell script is executed, rbash turns off any restrictions in the shell spawned to execute the script. SEE ALSO
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