>
> Have a thorough look around at:
> http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashPitfalls
> http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ
> http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashGuide
>
> and you will find a lot of useful knowledge that is
> explained with considerable effort by many people.
Pity I didn't find this page when
Thanks Lawrence for the response.
Between you and Robert I now have a clear understanding on this and I'll go
back and fix the bug in my code which used this construct.
Ken.
On Fri, 13 May 2022 00:51:49 -0400
Lawrence Velázquez wrote:
> On Thu, May 12, 2022, at 11:34 PM, flyingrhi
Hi,
Thank you very much for the detailed description of this scenario.
Before opening the bug I looked online for if-then-else vs [[ and no proper
information was available, definitely not to the extent you explain here.
This is very useful and rare knowledge and the effort you took to explain t
Hi,
Should the "else" condition after the: || run if the last command in
the: && section exits non zero?
I tested it this way:
Script:
#!/bin/bash
[[ "a" == "a" ]] && \
{
echo "equal"
ls x
} || {
echo "* SHOULD NOT DISPLAY 4"
}
Result:
./moo.sh
equal
ls:
