[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Make strip paths configurable

[Aaron Griffin]

On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 3:51 PM, Xavier <shiningxc at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 10:45 PM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> aaron at gerolde:~$ [ -z foo bar baz ]
>> -bash: [: too many arguments
>> aaron at gerolde:~$ [ -z "foo bar baz" ]
>> aaron at gerolde:~$
>
>
> Well don't ask me to explain, but here is a closer test case I think :
>
> [xavier at nx7400 ~]$ array=({foo,bar,baz})
> [xavier at nx7400 ~]$ [ -z "${array[@]}" ]
> bash: [: too many arguments

Weird. I'd guess this is something to do with globbing taking
priority. Seeing as this is just testing for some value, using single
quotes fixes the issue.