On 12/20/2010 11:25 AM, Curtis Doty wrote: > Not exactly sure if this is a bug. But I don't understand why only the > first time running ((i++)) returns an error exit status.
Because it follows the same semantics as 'expr', where status 1 is reserved for a successful run with value 0, and status 2 and above are reserved for errors. This was just brought up on the list earlier this month: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2010-12/msg00087.html and seems to be a recurring question: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2010-07/msg00121.html -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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