Irregularities when using -v, -z, -n

[eduardo-chibas]

> Sent: Friday, July 30, 2021 at 2:30 AM
> From: "Leonid Isaev (ifax)" <leonid.isaev@ifax.com>
> To: help-bash@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Irregularities when using -v, -z, -n
>
> On Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 09:42:51AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > Inflating the bash(1) man page even further with thousands of examples
> > is not likely to be accepted.
>
> Fair point.
>
> I had online documentation at gnu.org in mind, actually. But yes, I see how
> this can be a problem if it is generated from the same source as the manpage.
>
> > Unraveling things a bit, most of the OP's troubles would go away if
> > they would simply initialize their variables with default values up
> > front, instead of trying to determine retroactively whether they
> > already assigned a value to the variable during option processing.
>
> Agreed. The only check to be made in practice, is whether a (already defined)
> variable contains a zero-length string or not...

My problem mostly emanate from dynamic scoping.

> --
> Leonid Isaev
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