Re: Some minor notes on manual chapter 4 "Shell Builtin Commands"

[Chet Ramey]

On 10/9/23 3:21 PM, Kerin Millar wrote:

> > I can see not exiting if the interactive shell is
> > in posix mode.
>
> I don't mean to nitpick over a minor issue but bash does also report that a numeric 
> argument is "required", implying (at least, to my mind) that the built-in 
> requires a valid argument to be able to act at all. Should bash remain able to exit in 
> the interactive context, it might make sense to avoid that particular word.

Let's try it. I'll make a change to prevent an interactive shell from
exiting if exit is supplied a non-numeric argument, and we'll see how it
goes.

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