ot, bash programming question

[Gregory Nowak]

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Hi folks,

apologies for the off topic post, but I'm hoping someone can answer my
question.

In a bash script, how do you deal with a program returning 0 in an if
statement?
Here's a script to illustrate what I mean

#!/bin/sh
if [ `/bin/true || echo $?` = 1 ] ; then
echo "returned 1"
fi
 
When I run this, I should just get the bash prompt back. When I run it
though, I get:

[: 4: =: unexpected operator

followed by the prompt.
I understand this happens because true exits with 0 status, and it
isn't echoed back, so the if statement compares nothing to 1. What I'd
like to know is how to get around that? Thanks in advance.

Greg


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