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From: Robert Watson <robert.oo.watson@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: uncommon shell code
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 15:32:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <72499e3b05092207326abadd91@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Hi,

I found the following shell code in git-tag.sh (and others):

while case "$#" in 0) break ;; esac
do
  ...
done

Why not use the straight forward code:

while test "$#" -ne 0
do
   ...
done

Are there any functional difference between them?

Robertoo

             reply	other threads:[~2005-09-22 14:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-22 14:32 Robert Watson [this message]
2005-09-22 22:03 ` uncommon shell code Junio C Hamano
2005-09-23  8:32   ` Robert Watson
2005-09-23  9:00     ` Junio C Hamano

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