On Fri Jun 09, 2006 at 12:34:05 +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: >On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 09:32:07AM +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: >> Mary Gardiner wrote: >> > EXIT STATUS >> > 0 (true) System is on mains power >> > 1 (false) System is not on mains power >> > 255 (false) Power status could not be determined >> >> <boggle> >> In what universe is 0 true and 1 false????? >> </boogle> > >That would be the Shell universe. Like most things in shell, it's bass >ackwards. You get used to it after a while.
nofx:/home/benno% true; echo $? 0 nofx:/home/benno% false; echo $? 1 Huzzah! -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
