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		emmelaich on Nov 23, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: test, [, and [[ (2020) Yeh you'd have to do something like `foo=true bar=false $($foo) && $($bar); baz=$? case $baz in 1) echo false;; 0) echo true;; esac` It just ain't worth it.

shmerl on Nov 23, 2023 [–]

Yeah, that's very convoluted. It would be useful to have some context for boolean expressions, similarly how $((...)) works for numeric ones.

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