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Re: 'set -e' and 'trap 0' togheter does not work as expected on syntax e
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Stefano Lattarini |
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Re: 'set -e' and 'trap 0' togheter does not work as expected on syntax errors |
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Sat, 22 Aug 2009 11:31:31 +0200 |
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At Saturday 22 August 2009, Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:
> Stefano Lattarini wrote:
>> I have the following scripts:
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>> [CUT]
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>> I thought that when bash detect a syntax errors in the script,
>> it would pass a $? != 0 to the code in the exit trap, regardless
>> of whether `set -e' is active or not.
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> It's not exactly a bug -- this behavior isn't standardized
> anywhere, and historical shells behave differently. The behavior
> you want is useful enough that I'll change it for bash-4.1, though.
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> Chet
Thanks, much appreciated.
Oh, and by the way, sorry for the duplicate message.
Regards,
Stefano