Re: Bad substitution breaks conditional statement

[Chet Ramey]

On 10/13/20 4:42 PM, Martin Schulte wrote:
> Hi Chet, hi all!
> 
>> In general, variable expansion errors cause posix-mode shells to exit and
>> bash default mode shells to abort execution of the current command and
>> return to the top level, whether that is the command line or the next
>> command in the script. This aborts lists and other compound commands.
>> Bash has always behaved this way.
>>
>> However, invalid parameter transformation operators are not considered
>> fatal errors, even in posix mode. Maybe they should be.
> 
> Yes, please :-)

There are a couple of ways to go. The obvious one is to make it a fatal
error when non-interactive and non-fatal in interactive shells. The posix
mode setting should not matter because this is not a posix expansion.

> 
> Or no error at all.

No, that doesn't seem useful.

Chet

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