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Re: 'case' zeroes "$?"

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From: Martijn Dekker <martijn@xxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: 'case' zeroes "$?"
Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2016 23:34:18 +0200
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Op 09-10-16 om 23:01 schreef Martijn Dekker:
> Example:
> 
> (exit 37) || case $? in 37) echo "$?";; esac
> 
> All shells except zsh and Busybox ash output 37; zsh outputs 0.

Actually, busybox ash just fixed this as well, see:
https://bugs.busybox.net/show_bug.cgi?id=9311
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/utils/dash/dash.git/commit/?id=da534b740e628512e8e0e62729d6a2ef521e5096

FreeBSD sh, another Almquist derivative, also outputs 37.

Thanks,

- M.

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