Bug#296099: bash: 'help if': confusing text (forwarded from A Costa)

2005-09-10 Thread Chet Ramey
Matthias Klose wrote: > Looks ok for me, but then, I'm not a native speaker ... I've already clarified that the `exit status' the last sentence refers to is the exit status of the entire `if' statement. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ( ``Discere est Dolere''

Bug#296099: bash: 'help if': confusing text

2005-02-20 Thread A Costa
Package: bash Version: 3.0-14 Severity: normal % help if | cat -n 1 if: if COMMANDS; then COMMANDS; [ elif COMMANDS; then COMMANDS; ]... [ else COMMANDS; ] fi 2 The if COMMANDS are executed. If the exit status is zero, then the then 3 COMMANDS are executed. Other