Re: [FYI] {master} maint: assume 'test -x' is portable

[Harlan Stenn <stenn@xxxxxxx>]

Eric wrote:
> Instead of 'rm -f $list', you have to use
> 'test -n "$list" || rm -f $list'.

This may also not be an issue any longer, but (many) years ago I learned
(probably from Larry Wall) to avoid using 'test -n ...' when possible,
as it was too often *not* a shell builtin and therefore was a
performance hog as a subshell was spawned.  I routinely use 'case'
statements instead of any tests for (non-)empty strings.

H

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