Eygene Ryabinkin <rea-git@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > OK, you're right. Especially if /bin/sh from Solaris and OpenBSD > are working and they are not Bash. But I would not tell that > the shell is broken now -- I had not seen the POSIX specification. > Does it specifies how the shell should work in this case? I have always been assuming it to be the case (this construct is not my invention but is an old school idiom I just inherited from my mentor) and never looked at the spec recently, but I re-read it just to make sure. The answer is yes. Visit http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/ and follow "Shell and Utilities volume (XCU)" and then "Case conditional construct". Exit Status The exit status of case shall be zero if no patterns are matched. Otherwise, the exit status shall be the exit status of the last command executed in the compound-list. So, as David suggests, if false case Ultra in Super) false ;; Hyper) true ;; esac && echo case returned ok does not say "case returned ok", then the shell has a bit of problem. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
