[plug] bash scripting

Cameron Patrick cameron at patrick.wattle.id.au
Tue Dec 23 20:04:15 WST 2003


On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 07:56:42PM +0800, James Devenish wrote:

| That is an epitome of the necessary style, as far as I know, though in
| ksh and zsh, `true` is a built-in command and has negligible overhead.
| However, in bash 2.05a, it appears there is no such built-in.

Um, that's wrong unless it changed between 2.05a and 2.05b.  My bash
/does/ have true and false built in.

$ type true
true is a shell builtin
$ echo $BASH_VERSION
2.05b.0(1)-release

Cameron.




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