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I am running some script which passing the string argument and I want to do if else statement shown as below:

if [ $1 != '' ] && [ $2 != '' ]

then 

    do something.....

but it shown Error too many argument. Why?

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answered 1 Year ago urvedcaly · Accepted Answer

Try using the -z test:

if [ -z "$1" ] && [ -z "$2" ]

From man bash:

-z string

   True if the length of string is zero.