checking argument wheather is empty

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checking argument wheather is empty

Jul 19th, 2008

i wanted to check my args wheather is a empty string or -P when i run my code but it prompt an error msg. The error msg say i have an unary operation expected at line 3 and 7.
m i doing a wrong way to check for empty argument? if i wanted to check for empty argument how m i going to do it?

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if test $1 == "-P" then
read -p "Enter username: " username
elif test $1 == " " then
echo "Args Requires"
fi

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Re: checking argument wheather is empty

Jul 19th, 2008

Perhaps if [ "$1" == "" ];

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