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Re: [PLUG] if command then foo else bar
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On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 07:48:27AM -0400, David A. Harding spake thus:
> On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 11:35:06PM -0400, JP Vossen wrote:
> > At the PLUG West meeting, Toby asked about using a bash 'if' without a
*snip*
> > This one bites me every once in a while too, since that's how it
> > "logically" should work.
>
> That is how it works. For example:
>
> $ if false ; then echo "Hello, World" ; else echo "Goodbye, World" ; fi
> Goodbye, World
>
> Or in a script:
>
> if false
> then
> echo "Hello, World"
> else
> echo "Goodbye, World"
> fi
>
> (Note: false is /bin/false, a GNU Coreutils command.)
*snip*
While that's true, the way 'false' is invoked above will invoke the bash
'false' builtin.
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