# not honored?

[Jean-Pierre Radley]

In article <3106 at auspex.auspex.com> guy at auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes:
>                               some of
>Larry Wall's scripts open with a command that does one thing on "sh" and
>another on "csh", and if it detects it's running under "csh" it
>resubmits itself to "sh":

>PATH='.:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/ucb:/usr/local:/usr/lbin:/etc'
>export PATH || (echo "OOPS, this isn't sh.  Desperation time.  I will feed myself to sh."; sh $0; kill $$)

Which never worked for me. I use csh most of the time.
Both on the Tandy 6000, and in SCO 386 Xenix, it turns
out that /bin/csh completey invert the meaning of
'&&' and '||'.



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