Re: SECONDS=0 does not reset SECONDS, or I'm missing something

[Steve Amerige]

I was offering some best practice advice as I don't think I'm 
constrained to answer just the question. :-)

I generally welcome best practice advice in this distribution list as 
subscribers tend to use
this list not just to get their own questions answered, but also learn 
from others in the process.
Please do feel free to ignore any comments that you are not interested in.

Enjoy and have a great day,
Steve Amerige

On 6/4/2020 9:00 AM, Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri wrote:
> > Also, as a side note, if your script were running with set -o errexit,
> > the conditional idiom would fail because it doesn't handle the false case.
> > Better:
> >
> > if (( SECONDS > 0 )); then
> >     sleep $SECONDS
> > fi
> I don't understand this, or what it has to do with my issue.  Setting
> errexit in the shell would not terminate the script due to a failure in
> my AND-list (unless sleep somehow failed).