"Derek R. Price" wrote:
> "Derek R. Price" wrote:
>
> > AUTOCONF='exit 77 &&'
>
> Excuse me:
>
> AUTOCONF='exit 77 && dummy'
>
> to keep the parser eternally happy.
Or almost eternally happy. Due to some wierdness where my Bash only evaluates a
variable as a single command (i.e. ignoring ';', '&&', & '||'), the following was
necessary:
test='eval exit 77 && dummy'
This does the Right Thing (tm) in all the following cases:
$test
($test)
$test -args and -more args
:; $test; dummy; more
: && $test
: || $test
false || $test
false && $test
$test && :
$test || :
$test && false
$test || false
if $test; then :; fi
I expect more parens aren't going to change anything. Did I miss anything?
Derek
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