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Re: Bash true/false builtings undocumented? "false" not working?

From <tomas@tuxteam.de>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Bash true/false builtings undocumented? "false" not working?
Date 2018-08-23 16:30 +0200
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On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 02:59:18PM +0200, Stefan Krusche wrote:

[...]

> Nothing. What Tomás wrote is false (has exit code "1" ;-)
> 
> This:
> 
>   test $? && echo ok || echo error $?
> 
> does *not* expand as Tomás said to:
> 
>   test 0 && echo ok || echo error 0
> 
> but to:
> 
>   test 1 && echo ok || echo error 1
> 
> And "test 1" also succeeds, see Greg's message.

You are of course right. The outcome may be the same (because neither
"0" nor "1" are null (i.e. "")), but $? is "1" after false.

Sorry for the botch, and thanks for paying attention :-)

Cheers
- -- tomás
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Bash true/false builtings undocumented? "false" not working? Zenaan Harkness <zenaan@freedbms.net> - 2018-08-17 10:50 +0200
  Re: Bash true/false builtings undocumented? "false" not working? Zenaan Harkness <zenaan@freedbms.net> - 2018-08-17 11:00 +0200
  Re: Bash true/false builtings undocumented? "false" not working? Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2018-08-17 11:00 +0200
    Re: Bash true/false builtings undocumented? "false" not working? Zenaan Harkness <zenaan@freedbms.net> - 2018-08-17 11:30 +0200
    Re: Bash true/false builtings undocumented? "false" not working? Zenaan Harkness <zenaan@freedbms.net> - 2018-08-17 11:40 +0200
      Re: Bash true/false builtings undocumented? "false" not working? Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2018-08-17 11:40 +0200
      Re: Bash true/false builtings undocumented? "false" not working? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2018-08-17 12:20 +0200
      Re: Re: Bash true/false builtings undocumented? "false" not working? Clive Standbridge <list-user@tgstandbridges.plus.com> - 2018-08-17 14:10 +0200
        Re: Re: Bash true/false builtings undocumented? "false" not working? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2018-08-17 15:40 +0200
      Re: Bash true/false builtings undocumented? "false" not working? Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-08-17 14:30 +0200
        Re: Bash true/false builtings undocumented? "false" not working? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2018-08-17 15:50 +0200
          Re: Bash true/false builtings undocumented? "false" not working? Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-08-17 16:20 +0200
            Re: Bash true/false builtings undocumented? "false" not working? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2018-08-17 16:40 +0200
              Re: Bash true/false builtings undocumented? "false" not working? Zenaan Harkness <zenaan@freedbms.net> - 2018-08-18 01:10 +0200
        Re: Bash true/false builtings undocumented? "false" not working? Zenaan Harkness <zenaan@freedbms.net> - 2018-08-18 01:30 +0200
  Re: Bash true/false builtings undocumented? "false" not working? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2018-08-17 11:30 +0200
    Re: Bash true/false builtings undocumented? "false" not working? Zenaan Harkness <zenaan@freedbms.net> - 2018-08-17 11:40 +0200
      Re: Bash true/false builtings undocumented? "false" not working? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2018-08-17 11:50 +0200
        Re: Bash true/false builtings undocumented? "false" not working? tomas@tuxteam.de - 2018-08-17 12:00 +0200
      Re: Bash true/false builtings undocumented? "false" not working? Stefan Krusche <linux@stefan-krusche.de> - 2018-08-23 15:00 +0200
        Re: Bash true/false builtings undocumented? "false" not working? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2018-08-23 16:30 +0200

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