SC3016
Vidar Holen edited this page Nov 3, 2022
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In POSIX sh, unary -v (in place of [ -n "${var+x}" ]) is undefined.
Problematic code:
#!/bin/sh
if [ -v STY ]
then
echo "STY is set, you are using screen"
fiCorrect code:
Either switch to bash:
#!/bin/sh
if [ -n "${STY+x}" ]
then
echo "STY is set, you are using screen"
fiRationale:
Your script uses a shell feature not supported by the shebang. Either rewrite the script to be portable, or change the shebang to explicitly require a shell like Bash.
In this case, [ -v variable ] to check if a variable is set can be replaced with [ -n "${variable+x}" ] which uses the "alternative value if set" parameter expansion syntax to accomplish the same thing.
Exceptions:
None
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