02-26-2013
While condition in shell script
while [ "$driverName" = "" -o `checkFile "$driverName"` = "NOK" ]
do
if [ "$driverName" = "" ];then
read driverName
else
driverName=""
fi
done
can anyone please explain what exactly is happening on 1st line...is it like the conditions being ORed...I have no clue about this.
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