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Re: Optimal shell scripting (vs. archive generated by shar -V...)


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: Optimal shell scripting (vs. archive generated by shar -V...)
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 09:34:38 -0600
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On 08/29/2010 11:31 AM, Bruce Korb wrote:

This way we don't run the "true" executable in order to check the "-c"
condition.

'true' is a shell builtin in practically every existing shell today, and does not cost any extra execution time.

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