From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27862 invoked from network); 23 Mar 2001 17:44:42 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 23 Mar 2001 17:44:42 -0000 Received: (qmail 19604 invoked by alias); 23 Mar 2001 17:44:32 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 13735 Received: (qmail 19590 invoked from network); 23 Mar 2001 17:44:30 -0000 From: "Bart Schaefer" Message-Id: <1010323174350.ZM22683@candle.brasslantern.com> Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 17:43:50 +0000 X-Mailer: Z-Mail (5.0.0 30July97) To: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk Subject: Comment found in 01grammar.ztst MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii # Can someone convince me the following is really supposed to fail # without the semicolon present? { cd /NonExistentDirectory >&/dev/null; } || print false I'm not sure what "fail" means in the comment, but this should work the same way in zsh without the semicolon. Sh/ksh require the semicolon. I double-checked that it *does* work the same way without the semicolon. -- Bart Schaefer Brass Lantern Enterprises http://www.well.com/user/barts http://www.brasslantern.com Zsh: http://www.zsh.org | PHPerl Project: http://phperl.sourceforge.net