Hubert Feyrer wrote about Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc:
:On 9 Mar 1999, Geoff Wing wrote:
:> :So dumb-down the shell commands used: make them into
:> :"command; if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then..."
:> :Suggested by David Brownlee.
:> ``if command; then : ; else .....; fi''
:> might be nicer on the eye.
:I don't thinks so. You're doing two things here (1. run the command, 2.
:check if it went ok), and seperating this make things easier to read
:instead of stuffing it all in one command (with one part even unused).

Ah well, just my personal preference.  And it doesn't fork off just to
run ``['' which is not handled internally by most (if any) Bourne shells.

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