On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 04:25:48AM -0400, Dave Rutherford wrote: > On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 02:48, Pitt, David <david.p...@anz.com> wrote: > > status. This is not expected (at least not by me!). Zero exit > > status is returned with > > any list of commands, e.g. "/bin/ls && :". > > That one would, since the second command is 'true'. Replace it > with 'false' and you should see an exit status of 1.
You're confused. In a regular shell, the if the /bin/ls fails, the && part never gets executed at all, and the entire thing returns non-zero. $ bash -c 'false && :'; echo $? 1
