On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 10:56:01AM -0600, Lucas Bergman wrote: > Matt Price <matt.price@utoronto.ca> writes: > > > David Z Maze wrote: > > > > is it possible in bash to test whether a comand has actually worked? > > The '||' operator does this, like: > > #!/bin/sh > gnuclient "$@" || xemacs -nomapped "$@" || vi "$@" > > or something. > > Lucas thanks lucas, this is great, very elegant. matt