Re: Strange return codes of continue

[Chet Ramey]

Roman Rakus wrote:
> This is realy strange. I have two examples
> First:
>
> while [ 1 ]; do
>  while [ 1 ]; do
>    continue 0
>  done
> done
> echo $?
>
>
> Second:
>
> while [ 1 ]; do
>  while [ 1 ]; do
>    continue 0
>  done
>  echo $?
> done
> echo $?
>
> In first case I have echoed 1. And I am expecting the same result in 
> second case, but I get 0. Can anyone help me and say where is the 
> difference?

It's a bug.  When breaking out of multiple loops, if the outermost loop
consists of more than one command, the exit status is lost.  This will
be fixed in the next release.

Chet


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