Re: Irregularities when using -v, -z, -n

[Leonid Isaev (ifax)]

On Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 10:27:08AM +0200, eduardo-chibas@caramail.com wrote:
> I am getting confused with the following code

Well, perhaps you could read "help test"? If you did, you'd see:
-----8<-----
...
   String operators:
      -z STRING      True if string is empty.
      -n STRING      True if string is not empty.
...
      -v VAR         True if the shell variable VAR is set.
      -R VAR         True if the shell variable VAR is set and is a name
                     reference.
...
----->8-----

Therefore,

>   [[ -v aa ]] && echo "[[ -v aa ]]: Variable exists."

tests if a variable is set, but

>   [[ -z aa ]] && echo "[[ -z aa ]]: Variable exists, size is zero."

tests that a string "aa" is zero length. You need to replace aa -> "$aa" here.
Also, [[ -z ... ]] returns 0 also for unset variables.

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Leonid Isaev