Because I don't know how to write bash scripts and this works and is …

…correct, going to keep it like this

test/check-bin.sh

@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ expectOut () {
   nodeV=`node -v`
 
   # if Node 0.10.*, node will sometimes exit with status 8 when an error is thrown
-  if [[ $expect != $actual || ( $nodeV == v0.10.* && $expect == 1 && $actual == 8 ) ]] ; then
+  if [[ $expect != $actual || $nodeV == v0.10.* && $expect == 1 && $actual == 8 ]] ; then
     echo "$msg: expected $expect got $actual"
     num_failures=$(expr $num_failures + 1)
   fi