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From: de5@de5.CTD.ORNL.GOV (Dave Sill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: bourne shell query
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Date: 5 Sep 90 17:24:17 GMT
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In article <SCOTT.90Sep5124415@tab29.larc.nasa.gov>, scott@tab29.larc.nasa.gov (Scott Yelich) writes:
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>2) test "$1" = "$2" && echo "Yeas!" || echo "No-way!"
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>4) eval ${1:+'echo "Yup!"'}
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>I prefer 2 and 4....

I hope I never have to maintain any of your scripts.  

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