[2018-11-15 12:43] Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn <cristian.ionescu-idbo...@axis.com>
> The point I was trying to make is that with code like this:
>
> cd /var/log && {
> ... do stuff ...
> }
> ^
> after the closed curly bracket above, if $? is _not_ 0 either the `cd'
> command failed or some stuff inside the command list. But with:
>
> ! cd /var/log || {
> ... do stuff ...
> }
> ^
> at this point, if $? is _not_ 0 then you can be sure some stuff inside
> the command list failed.
Your proposal changes semantics. For my uneducated view, considering failed
`cd /var/log' as `$? = 0' is strange.
