Stupid bash question
Aaron Konstam
akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Tue Dec 11 15:30:37 UTC 2007
On Mon, 2007-12-10 at 15:48 -0700, Paul Lemmons wrote:
> The "&&" says "if the previous command was successful, do the following
> command. So, if you have a command "isthislinux" on your machine (I do
> not) and it returns the string "LINUX" it will issue the ulimit command.
> If you do not have that command or the command returns something else,
> it will not.
>
> So, the short answer is: yes
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Stupid bash question
> From: aragonx at dcsnow.com
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> Date: 12/10/2007 03:29 PM
>
> > Okay, I'm confused. How would bash interpret this line?
> >
> > [ "`isthislinux`" = "LINUX" ] && ulimit -S -n 65536
Shouldn't the operator above be ==
> >
> > Would that be teh same as:
> >
> > if [ "`isthislinux`" == "LINUX" ]
> > then
> > ulimit -S -n 65536
> > fi
> >
> > This is quite confusing to me.
> >
> >
> >
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