Re: Stupid bash question

[Paul Lemmons <paul.lemmons@xxxxxxxxx>]

The "&&" says "if the previous command was successful, do the following 
command. So, if you have a command "isthislinux" on your machine (I do 
not) and it returns the string "LINUX" it will issue the ulimit command. 
If you do not have that command or the command returns something else, 
it will not.

So, the short answer is: yes


-------- Original Message  --------
Subject: Stupid bash question
From: aragonx@xxxxxxxxxx
To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx
Date: 12/10/2007 03:29 PM

> Okay, I'm confused.  How would bash interpret this line?
>
> [ "`isthislinux`" = "LINUX" ] && ulimit -S -n 65536
>
> Would that be teh same as:
>
> if [ "`isthislinux`" == "LINUX" ]
> then
>    ulimit -S -n 65536
> fi
>
> This is quite confusing to me.

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