On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 12:59:28AM +0200, Paul de Weerd wrote:
| hi all,
| 
| While reading ksh(1) I found :
| 
|       A pipeline may be prefixed by the `!' reserved word,
|       which causes the exit status of the pipeline to be
|       logically complemented: if the original status was
|       0, the complemented status will be 1; if the
|       original status was not 0, the complemented status
|       will be 0.

PS: the complemented status of 0 should probably be 1, but that's of
later concern ;)

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