On 7/31/06, Poor Yorick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The following line does not perform the "echo" command.: ${FAKEVAR?} || echo hello This seems inconsistent, since the return status is set to one, not to mention that the null command is documented to return a zero exit code. It would be a convenient and concise syntax for acting on unset variables.
Try this and then run your script: export FAKEVAR="echo This could have been rm -rf $HOME" to see why not to do it this way. On the other hand, if you already know FAKEVAR is not set, why are you performing a test? Dave _______________________________________________ Bug-bash mailing list Bug-bash@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-bash
