Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!abcfd20.larc.nasa.gov!tab00.larc.nasa.gov!scott From: scott@tab00.larc.nasa.gov (Scott Yelich) Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell Subject: Re: bourne shell query Message-ID: Date: 6 Sep 90 16:00:11 GMT References: <26DC6447.15922@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> <8446@orca.wv.tek.com> <1990Sep6.140844.530@dg-rtp.dg.com> Sender: news@abcfd20.larc.nasa.gov (USENET File Owner) Organization: NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va. 23665 Lines: 25 In-Reply-To: eliot@dg-rtp.dg.com's message of 6 Sep 90 14:08:44 GMT |> Sometimes people program for the ART of it (Oh no! Did I say that?) |> for instance, which do you prefer? Which do you consider better My wife and I have for a long time had an inside joke: "I can't understand it. It must be Art." I never thought I'd apply it to a shell script... Please read the charter [?] for this group! I believe programming is an art... and if you program in sh, then that can be an art too. ps: re: test "" && {} || {} I am not worried about the second command failing. -- Signature follows. [Skip now] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scott D. Yelich scott@[xanth.]cs.odu.edu [128.82.8.1] After he pushed me off the cliff, he asked me, as I fell, ``Why'd you jump?'' Administrator of: Game-Design requests to ODU/UNIX/BSD/X/C/ROOT/XANTH/CS/VSVN/ -----------------------------------------------------------------------------