Re: [PATCH] Supplant the "while case ... break ;; esac" idiom

From: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Date: Sep 24, 2007, 06:05 UTC
Message-ID: <20070924060521.GB10975@glandium.org>
In-Reply-To: <85myvdktb3.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>

On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 10:42:08PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote:

> -while case $# in 0) break ;; esac
> +while test $# != 0

Wouldn't -ne be better ?

Mike

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