Tag: boolean

One of the problems using bash is the numeric equivalence of boolean values

#!/bin/sh
 function zero()
 {
 return 0
 }

function one()
 {
 return 1
 }

#main section
 if zero ;
 then
 echo "0 is true"
 fi
 if one ;
 then
 echo "1 is true"
 fi

and the output is:
0 is true