Re: bash giving wrong message for indicated failure (was Re: Unhelpful behaviors in 4.2.10(1))

[Linda Walsh]

Chet Ramey wrote:
> > > That's fine -- if the error message points at the included file as "not 
> > > returning a > 'true' value.
> > >
> > > It doesn't.  It points to a conditional in the previous file.
>
> Note that the error message wasn't generated by bash: you generated it
> yourself based on $BASH_COMMAND and the various LINENO variables.  That
> implies where information needs to be saved and restored around calls
> to eval/./source.
>
> That can be fixed, and will be for the next bash release.
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Erp....details!.... ;-)

Maybe the error message could be included with bash?
It's a nice feature to have builtin...(if it works correctly)...