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    There's a comment about the alternative to -z at pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/test.html. Basically, it isn't meant to be an alternative to -z. Rather, it handles cases where $foo could expand to something beginning with a metacharacter that [ or test would be confused by. Putting an arbitrary non-metacharacter at the beginning eliminates that possibility. Commented Dec 9, 2011 at 19:15