[CentOS] simple if statement

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
>
> Ralph
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