executable return values (was: curses/termcap/terminfo doc.)
Maarten Litmaath
maart at cs.vu.nl
Wed Aug 2 07:41:14 AEST 1989
jc at minya.UUCP (John Chambers) writes:
\..., and treats any
\executable file as a function whose value is its standard output.
Isn't an executable's return value (read: exit status) `totally unrelated'
to its output?
Example:
if test $# = 0
then
echo wrong
exit 0
else
echo OK
exit 1
fi
Sic!
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