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We are using the `-n` bash operator to determine whether a second
argument is passed to the `postinst` script during installation of
our DEB packages. The reasoning is that we want to differentiate
between installations and upgrades and a second argument to
postinst is only passed when this is an upgrade ( the identifier
of the version the package is upgraded to ).
The problem is that we use `-n` without quoting the $2 and this is
unsafe practice as it might yield unexpected results for `-n` and
`-z` operators used within test brackets. Testing with bash
5.0-6ubuntu1.1 `[ -n $2 ]` returns false both for upgrades and
installations, while `[ -n "$2" ]` behaves as expected.
References:
https://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/comparison-ops.htmlhttps://wiki.debian.org/MaintainerScripts
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