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From: coulter@hplabsc.UUCP (Michael Coulter)
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Subject: Re: history question-- Bourne (and C) SHELL COMMENTS
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Date: Fri, 15-Aug-86 16:20:00 EDT
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To get the effect of "NOT function-result" in the Bourne shell you can:

	some_command
	if [ ! $? -eq 0 ]
	then
		...
	fi

$? is assigned the result of the last command.

-- Michael Coulter			...ucbvax!hplabs!coulter