Ross Burtonhttp://www.burtonini.com/blogA potted account of Ross' lifeen60Ross BurtonTip Of The Weekcomputers/tip-of-the-week-2007-08-17-11-20http://www.burtonini.com/blog/computers/tip-of-the-week-2007-08-17-11-20This fragment of shell doesn't do what you'd expect at a quick glance: if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then ... This fragment of shell doesn't do what you'd expect at a quick glance: 

if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
    exit $?
fi

The act of checking $? causes $? to be set to the result of the test, so this executes exit 0 if $? is non-zero.

NP: Cosmos, Murcof

]]>/computers2007-08-17T10:20:00Z