You don't really need to prepend the x if the $remaining is in quotes, do you? If you didn't use quotes, then you could end up with a error if $remaining isn't set.
On Feb 27, 2009, at 5:24 AM, Ralph Angenendt wrote:
Tom Brown wrote:
Hi
Below if $remaining is empty i want the if to finish - what is it i need to put in SOMETHING?
if [ "$remaining" = "" ] ; then SOMETHING ; else kill -9 $remaining fi
if [ "x${remaining}" != "x" ] ; then kill -9 ${remaining} fi
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