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string-length - print string lengths¶

Synopsis¶

string length [(-q | --quiet)] [STRING...]

Description¶

string length reports the length of each string argument in characters. Exit status: 0 if at least one non-empty STRING was given, or 1 otherwise.

Examples¶

\>\_ string length 'hello, world'12\>\_ set str foo\>\_ string length -q $str; echo $status0
# Equivalent to test -n "$str"