[bug #27320] `set' inside `if' behaves wrongly

[Felix Zielcke]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?27320>

                 Summary: `set' inside `if' behaves wrongly
                 Project: GNU GRUB
            Submitted by: fzielcke
            Submitted on: Mi 26 Aug 2009 13:02:24 CEST
                Category: None
                Severity: Ordinary
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
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             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: 
                 Release: SVN
         Reproducibility: Every Time
         Planned Release: None

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Details:

sh:grub> if x ; then echo true ; else echo false ; fi
false
sh:grub> if x ; then set y=true ; echo $y ; else set y=false echo $y ; fi
true

It should even complain about a syntax error because there's a ; missing
between `set y=false' and `echo $y'
Even with it added it still says true





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