Hi people, Just a note on how to do if / then / else blocks properly in bash... The following style *won't* work, so don't do anything daft like committing it to eutils.eclass without testing and h0rking half the tree, okay?
if foo ; then
# do nothing
else
echo "hi"
fi
You have to have a real genuine statement inside each block. Otherwise,
bash will cry.
If The Doc existed, which it doesn't, and it wasn't in super-early-draft
state, which it would be if it did exist, you'd be able to see this at
[1]. As it is, you'll just have to read the bash docs.
[1]:
http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm/docs/IGNORE_the-doc/#multiple-selection
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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Fluxbox, shell tools)
Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org
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