From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 01:03:20 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (String tests): Improve quality of warning about
X-Git-Tag: v5.3.0~739
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ac161f59f7a20b245107d0ccd0fc570943871f3d;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

(String tests): Improve quality of warning about
quoting strings for the shell.
---

diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
index 531298d260..7033d15a88 100644
--- a/doc/coreutils.texi
+++ b/doc/coreutils.texi
@@ -9553,9 +9553,15 @@ numbers, i.e., if they are hard links to each other.
 
 @cindex string tests
 
-These options test string characteristics.  Strings are not quoted for
-@command{test}, though you may need to quote them to protect characters
-with special meaning to the shell, e.g., spaces.
+These options test string characteristics.  You may need to quote
+@var{string} arguments for the shell.  For example:
+
+@example
+test -n "$V"
+@end example
+
+The quotes here prevent the wrong arguments from being passed to
+@command{test} if @samp{$V} is empty or contains special characters.
 
 @table @samp