In shell, a variable is often considered unset even if it is
set to the empty string. In other words,
STOW_DIR= stow [args]
is an idiomatic alternative to writing:
unset STOW_DIR
stow [args]
and it also has the advantage of temporarily "unsetting" STOW_DIR
for a single command.
Therefore we should treat STOW_DIR being set to the empty string
as equivalent to it not being set at all.
Thanks to Cuong Manh Le for highlighting this issue!
Fixes#6 - https://github.com/aspiers/stow/issues/6Closes#5 - https://github.com/aspiers/stow/pull/5
I'm guessing it was added due to a misunderstanding of how shell
quoting works. When you invoke
stow --ignore=".#.*" ...
the shell strips out the quotes before the Perl process ever sees them.
I can't imagine any sensible scenario in which you would need to invoke
stow --ignore='"foo"'
but if the user has a filename containing quotes at the beginning and
end, they can now choose to ignore it (prior to this patch, they couldn't).
