Re: feature request: more complete set -e

[Chet Ramey]

Marc Weber wrote:

> Chet:
>> To do otherwise would have made expr much less useful.  Idioms such as
>>
>> var=10
>> while var=`expr $var - 1`
>> do
>>         echo $var
>> done
> 
> Mmh I'd use the C like for loop for this which is supported by bash as well.
> 

A relatively recent addition to the language.  The while loop idiom has
been around since the original Bourne shell.

Chet
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