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Re: bash errexit shell option does not work in some cases.
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: bash errexit shell option does not work in some cases. |
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Mon, 8 Jun 2020 11:04:21 -0400 |
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On 6/8/20 10:44 AM, Eli Schwartz wrote:
> Well, Greg does have a pretty good point (which is a point I for one
> prioritize in my decision process for "do I personally recommend the use
> of set -e") in that another part of the issue is its doing different
> things across point releases of a shell.
It last changed in 2009. Except for MacOS X, which is frozen in amber,
people should be using a version with the current semantics by now. If you
don't want things to change across releases, you have choices about which
version to use.
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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
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