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Re: PATCH: nitpick

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From: Clint Adams <clint@xxxxxxx>
To: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: PATCH: nitpick
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 08:59:51 -0400
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> Maybe it's just because I'm tired, but I don't understand what the
> functional difference is?  Other than the xtrace output ...

It's a /bin/sh script, so the existence of the binary -a is not
guaranteed, and if the expression were more complex, the operator
precedence could be ambiguous too.

References:
- PATCH: nitpick
  - From: Clint Adams
- Re: PATCH: nitpick
  - From: Bart Schaefer

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