Re: [CentOS] simple if statement

On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 15:42 +0100, Ralph Angenendt wrote:

Kevin Krieser wrote:

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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.

Probably. It's just something I'm used to do :)

It could be considered "good style" because it establishes a "habit" that covers for occassional "brain farts". Also helps n00bs avoid delays for debugging when they jump in and start coding under pressure.

The downside risk is that habit might bite one when they do do something like "-n" and forget to remove the "x".

<*sigh*> Habitual humons have hard hits however hard they try.

Cheers,

Ralph

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