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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