discuss: Thread: Incorrect AND / OR Precedence

Please double-check https://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/opprecedence.html which states that && AND has higher precedence that || OR. Other web sites and my experience indicate your documentation is incorrect. In the example below, if && was executed first then echo would have to run to complete the expression prior to running false, but in actuality echo does not run because || runs first and short-circuit condition says there is no point in running echo.

$ false || false && echo y

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On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 10:41:49AM -0400, Bulgrien, Dennis wrote:
> Please double-check https://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/opprecedence.html which states that && AND has higher precedence that || OR. Other web sites and my experience indicate your documentation is incorrect. In the example below, if && was executed first then echo would have to run to complete the expression prior to running false, but in actuality echo does not run because || runs first and short-circuit condition says there is no point in running echo.
> 
> $ false || false && echo y

Those are "list operators", not logical operators.
From "man bash":

"Of these list operators, && and || have equal precedence"

Your example never executes the echo no matter what the precedence of
the operators is:

$  { false || false ; } && echo y
(no output)

$ false || { false && echo y ; }
(no output)

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