Re: &&||

[Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>]

On 20/02/18 01:26 AM, Peter Stephenson wrote:
> I think you were trying to make the status depend only on what was
> before the first "&&".  You can certainly do
But isn't that exactly what I did do?  Appending to you code below:

> first-statement && {
>     any-old-stuff
> } || {something-else-entirely}
Yet the return value of any-old-stuff (egrep in practice) was what 
actually controlled something-else-entirely.  I'm not expecting the 
pipes within any braced structure to make any difference.  Is that 
what's happening?  Is so, how/why?  Do not the braces pointedly force 
the entire structure to be subordinate to the first '&&'?  It seems to 
me that the left>right association in my original code is sorta 
'brutally' adhered to in such a way that the natural meaning of the 
braces is violated such that any-old-stuff has control of branching when 
the natural logic is that first-statement has it.  Yes? No?


if first-statement; then
     { any-old-stuff}
else
     {something-else-entirely}
fi

That works fine egrep and/or pipes notwithstanding, yet I'm expecting 
both to work the same.  You seem to suggest they should as well.