Re: Command substitution and errexit

[Chet Ramey]

On 10/15/12 11:23 AM, Nikolai Kondrashov wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I've noticed that errexit is disabled inside command substitution.
> Is this intentional?

Yes.  It's been that way since bash-1.14.  The reasons why are lost in
time -- it was 17 years ago, after all -- but probably go something like
not wanting the parent's settings to produce unexpected results in the
child process.

Current versions of bash disable -e inside command substitution only when
posix mode is not enabled.

> interesting, $SHELLOPTS shows it still on inside the command substitution.

Thanks, that's a problem.

Chet
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