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Re: Is this right? test -v $hash{defined_value} == false?

From Charles Daffern <seejay.11@gmail.com>
Newsgroups gnu.bash.bug
Subject Re: Is this right? test -v $hash{defined_value} == false?
Date 2015-07-13 07:04 +0100
Message-ID <mailman.6830.1436767471.904.bug-bash@gnu.org> (permalink)
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On 13/07/15 04:58, Linda Walsh wrote:
>>  [[ -v hash[defined_value] ]] || echo fail 
> fail
This one worked for me, both bare and in quotes.

>>  echo $BASH_VERSION
> 4.2.45(1)-release
I'm on 4.3.39(1)-release

> This seems more messy and isn't -v supposed
> to help clean up such things?
>>  [[ ${hash[defined_value]:-""} ]] || echo fail  #it passes
>>  [[ ${hash[defined_value1]:-""} ]] || echo fail
> fail
In non-bash shells I will usually use [ -n "${var+x}" ], because it
distinguishes between empty and unset variables.

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Re: Is this right? test -v $hash{defined_value} == false? Charles Daffern <seejay.11@gmail.com> - 2015-07-13 07:04 +0100

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