Sudoers list?

[Matthew Palmer]

On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 10:08:12AM +0100, Daniel Carrera wrote:
> >>Another difference applies to well-intentioned but buggy scripts. When 
> >>you trust the script writer's intentions, but not his coding skills :) 
> >>it doesn't hurt to minimise the time spent as root.
> >
> >There is that.  Nothing like a bit of
> >
> >rm -rf /$INSTDIR
> >
> >without checking [ -n "$INSTDIR" ] first to really make somebody's day.
> 
> What does [ -n do?
> I assume that it checks whether $INSTDIR is not empty.

>From test(1):

       [-n] STRING
              the length of STRING is nonzero

Effectively equivalent to [ "$INSTDIR" != "" ].
                     
- Matt