Re: bourne shell query

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From: Harald Fuchs
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 1990 11:11

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scott@tab29.larc.nasa.gov (Scott Yelich) writes:
>2) test "$1" = "$2" && echo "Yeas!" || echo "No-way!"

>I prefer 2 and 4....

I don't. The third command is executed if the second fails, which is
surely not what I want.
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Harald Fuchs <fuchs@it.uka.de>

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