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Re: declare overrides errexit
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Greg Wooledge |
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Re: declare overrides errexit |
Date: |
Fri, 24 Sep 2010 11:50:58 -0400 |
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Mutt/1.4.2.3i |
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 04:43:38PM +0100, Marc Herbert wrote:
> Bourne shell is the only programming language I know that ignores
> errors by default. "set -e" does not completely repair this design
> flaw but it goes a long and appreciated way.
C does too. This is probably not a coincidence.