3 simple steps to make booting/shutdown faster...

[Behdad Esfahbod]

> On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 08:15:20 -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote
> 
> > > This should really be fixed in bash to short-circuit.
> > 
> > well......... not sure it can be done in the bash language.
> > (it may well guarantee that both get executed)

There's nothing to execute there.  All the expansions happen first, so
if you have things like [ -n "$something" -a "`id`" = 0 ], the `id` call
is made before passing control to "test".  The short-circuit would just
happen in the evaluation in test.  There's no user-visible difference
there.

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