From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 04:06:25 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow shell scripts to run with non-Bash /bin/sh
Message-ID: <86tzpnwdha.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz>
In-Reply-To: <20070922035434.GA99140@void.codelabs.ru>

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

>> 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