Re: [PATCH] consolidate command line escaping

From: Jan Beulich
Date: Tue Jan 31 2006 - 03:02:51 EST


>> -cmd = @$(if $($(quiet)cmd_$(1)),\
>> - echo ' $(call escsq,$($(quiet)cmd_$(1)))' &&) $(cmd_$(1))
>> +cmd = @$(echo-cmd) $(cmd_$(1))
>Here you replace
> echo 'xxx' && cmd
>with
> echo 'xxx'; cmd
>
>Since we assume echo will always succeed I see no difference in
>behaviour, but I recall the '&&' was there for some specific reason.
>Just wondering why it is so - I see no problems with it.

Since I didn't see a difference in behavior, and it permitted more re-use of existing constructs, I thought it'd be
reasonable to be replaced; I didn't know of anything that would require the &&.

Jan

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