Re: local failure

[Greg Wooledge]

On Sun, May 31, 2020 at 11:57:03PM -0400, John Passaro wrote:
> I think the underlying question here is not exactly "how do I gather this
> from the docs" as much as it is "how was I supposed to know about this and
> act on it before I had to debug it?"

I don't believe the bash documentation is the appropriate place to put
tutorials on how (not) to write bash scripts.

For that, I would consult other sources, such as:

https://shellcheck.net/
https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashPitfalls

I'm sure there are other excellent places to find instructions, but these
are the two that immediately come to mind.