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Re: Logical expression works does not work as expected


From: Chet Ramey
Subject: Re: Logical expression works does not work as expected
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2024 11:55:32 -0500
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On 12/28/24 3:23 PM, Lawrence Velázquez wrote:
On Fri, Dec 27, 2024, at 6:47 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
You might have been raised on some other language where the && and ||
operators have different precedence.  In the shell language, they have
the same precedence.

However, the && and || arithmetic operators do have C-like precedence.

If you're going to add arithmetic to the shell language, why not add it
with the precedence and syntax most comfortable to its users?


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