Re: Bad substitution breaks conditional statement

[Lawrence Velázquez]

> On Oct 12, 2020, at 1:23 AM, Martin Schulte <gnu@schrader-schulte.de> wrote:
> 
> It looks as if a bad substitution detected inside a case of if continues the 
> script flow immediately after the conditional statement skipping the 
> remaining statements inside the conditional. Please take a look into section 
> "Repeat-By:".

It does not really have to do with "conditionals" per se. You can
observe similar behavior with standalone lists.

% bash --version | head -n 1
GNU bash, version 5.0.17(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin18.7.0)
% cat /tmp/pe-test
: "${x!y}"
echo foo

{
    : "${x!y}"
    echo no bar
}
echo bar

: "${x!y}"; echo no baz
echo baz
% bash /tmp/pe-test
/tmp/pe-test: line 1: ${x!y}: bad substitution
foo
/tmp/pe-test: line 5: ${x!y}: bad substitution
bar
/tmp/pe-test: line 8: ${x!y}: bad substitution
baz

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