Subject: Re: sh problem
To: Andrew Brown <atatat@atatdot.net>
From: Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk>
List: current-users
Date: 01/25/2000 13:16:09
On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 12:38:17AM -0500, Andrew Brown wrote:
> 
> that's easy!  it's just like a shell script.
...

OK, one more time. sh doesn't return the logical negative of the second
command in a pipeline when the pipeline is preceeded by '!'. This is not
"expected behaviour" as some said, it isn't a question of fixing some
script or other that I am writing. sh just doesn't do what it says it
does.