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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Special IF construct syntax in UNIX Post 302944805 by hergp on Friday 22nd of May 2015 05:44:47 AM
Old 05-22-2015
Unfortunatelly this sequence is not a perfect if-then-else replacement. It works as expected in situations like:
Code:
 $ true && echo true || echo false
true
 $ false && echo true || echo false
false

But consider this:
Code:
 $ true && false || echo false
false

Ouch :-) Allthough the first expression ist true, both the "then" and the "else" part of the sequence is executed, because the "then" part evaluates to false.
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NAME

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SYNOPSIS

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