> On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 08:15:20 -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote > > > > This should really be fixed in bash to short-circuit. > > > > well......... not sure it can be done in the bash language. > > (it may well guarantee that both get executed) There's nothing to execute there. All the expansions happen first, so if you have things like [ -n "$something" -a "`id`" = 0 ], the `id` call is made before passing control to "test". The short-circuit would just happen in the evaluation in test. There's no user-visible difference there. -- behdad http://behdad.org/ "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
