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Re: Why sh does not return a false value?


From: Andreas Schwab
Subject: Re: Why sh does not return a false value?
Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2011 16:26:44 +0100
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ali hagigat <hagigatali@gmail.com> writes:

> if (sh -c exit 34) then echo ppppppppp;fi
> ppppppppp
> The following condition should be false, because our exit value is
> non-zero.

No, it isn't.  You are executing the exit command without an argument,
so it uses the exit status of the last command.  Since there was no
preceding command the exit status is zero.  The extra argument is simply
ignored.

Andreas.

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