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From: guy@gorodish.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: exit(-1), 0 is sometimes magic
Keywords: exit, zero, shells
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Date: 24 Jan 88 05:12:43 GMT
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Posted: Sun Jan 24 00:12:43 1988

> Nope.  The use of && and || in csh is the opposite of that in /bin/sh.

Nope.  The use of && and ||, in versions of "csh" recent enough to have the bug
that broke && and || fixed, is the same as that in "/bin/sh".  This includes
the 4.2 and 4.3 versions, and if I remember correctly it includes the 4.1
version as well.  (The bug was caused by somebody working on the C shell
forgetting that a zero exit status means true, not false, and that a non-zero
exit status means false, not true.)
	Guy Harris
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