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It will never produce a listing because it will always exit after the test, which only determines if it echoes "nope" or not.
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Tue Aug 8 07:42:18 2006 Ok vinodk
Yes i do think so
Wed Aug 8 07:37:15 2007 anonymous
ergo... inproper indenting is confusing. =)
Fri Feb 29 20:27:50 2008 LarryIrwin
False is correct, but the style is poor...
Here's the way to make it true (with proper indenting, etc.)
#!/bin/sh
[ "$1" = "nope" ] && {
echo "nope"
exit 1
}
ls
Fri Feb 29 20:34:44 2008 TonyLawrence
Well, yes, but that was the point - that you need to bracket this if you
need more than one action.
Wed Jun 24 12:50:20 2009 worwan
or I use following method if I want to execute more commands
[ "$1" = "nope" ] && echo "nope" && exit 1
Wed Jun 24 20:20:11 2009 TonyLawrence
That's not always a good way to do that.
See http://aplawrence.com/Basics/break_out.html
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