Re: [PATCH] Allow shell scripts to run with non-Bash /bin/sh

From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Date: Sep 22, 2007, 04:06 UTC
Message-ID: <86tzpnwdha.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz>
In-Reply-To: <20070922035434.GA99140@void.codelabs.ru>

Eygene Ryabinkin <rea-git@codelabs.ru> writes:

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>> That is, what does the shell say if you do this?
>> 
>> 	case Ultra in
>>         Super)
>>         	false ;;
>> 	Hyper)
>>         	true ;;
>> 	esac &&
>>         echo case returned ok
>
> It says 'case returned ok', so I will try to understand why it
> works here and does not work in the 'while' construct.

What you actually need to do is

false
case Ultra in
   Super)
   	false ;;
Hyper)
   	true ;;
esac && echo case returned ok

-- 
David Kastrup

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