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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Nested die error
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 03:20:06
Message-Id: 200504142320.13443.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Nested die error by "Olivier CrĂȘte"
1 On Thursday 14 April 2005 05:57 pm, Olivier CrĂȘte wrote:
2 > You can do if/then/fi or
3 > use blah && { emake foo || die; }
4 >
5 > {} will not spawn a sub-shell... just execute them in the same shell so
6 > the die will work properly
7
8 both syntaxes are ugly imho but the best thing would be to use if/then/fi
9 because many more developers understand that than the 1 line { } code
10 -mike
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