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Re: Case of set -e not being in effect in a subshell.
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: Case of set -e not being in effect in a subshell. |
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Mon, 11 Jun 2018 11:09:17 -0400 |
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On 6/11/18 6:12 AM, Bartłomiej Palmowski wrote:
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> The issue is:
> $ cat bad
> (
> set -e
> false
> echo "Shouldn't happen?"
> ) && :
> $ bash ./bad ; echo $?
> Shouldn't happen?
> 0
`set -e' is ignored for any command of an OR list except the last, whether
it is in effect before the command is executed or when enabled by the
command itself.
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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/