3 simple steps to make booting/shutdown faster...

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 20:23:13 +0200
Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta at iki.fi> wrote:

> On Sunday 17 February 2008, Adam Goode wrote:
> 
> > From bash info page:
> >
> >     `EXPRESSION1 || EXPRESSION2'
> >           True if either EXPRESSION1 or EXPRESSION2 is true.
> >      The `&&' and `||' operators do not evaluate EXPRESSION2 if the
> >      value of EXPRESSION1 is sufficient to determine the return
> > value of the entire conditional expression.
> >
> > So, replace "-o" with "||" ? (And "[" with "[[" and "]" with "]]" ?)
> 
> I think that would sacrifice some portability, but of course that's
> no issue for scripts that already require bash.  "[ -e FOO ] || [ -e
> BAR ]" should be more portable.
> 

just to make it clear; I'm by far not a bash expert .. I'm happy to just point out
the problem and let someone who actually knows bash, code the perfect solution :)



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