On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 01:38:19PM +1000, Matthew Dalton wrote: > > > "A. Scott White" wrote: > > > > Can anyone tell me exactly what this line accomplishes: > > > > [ "${GATEWAY}" ] && route add default gw ${GATEWAY} metric 1 > > if the $GATEWAY variable has been set, run the command 'route add > default gw ${GATEWAY} metric 1. > > The [ and ] are synonyms for the 'test' program. In this case, if > $GATEWAY is set, test returns 1, otherwise it returns 0. The return you got that backwords, when $GATEWAY is set `test' returns 0 not 1. 0 == success 1 == failure to the original poster, reply & change subject != new message the former screws up threading in mailing list archives and in MUAs such as mutt. please always create a new message and paste the list address in instead of using reply as a shortcut, or if you post often create an alias/address book entry for the list address. thank you. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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