Re: errexit is not suspended in a pipeline

[Chet Ramey]

On 1/10/23 9:36 PM, Quinn Grier wrote:
> In the documentation for set -e, the Bash manual says that errexit is
> suspended in all but the last command of a pipeline:
>
>        The shell does not exit if the command that fails is part of
>        [...] any command in a pipeline but the last

That's not what that says. It doesn't say that the command doesn't fail, or
that `set -e' isn't active; it says how it affects the exit status of the
pipeline. This means that a non-terminal pipeline element failing doesn't
determine whether or not the shell exits, since it doesn't affect the
pipeline's exit status.

I'm not sure why you included the `part of' in your quote, since it clearly
applies to the text following it: "part of the command list immediately
following as while or until keyword, part of the test following ..."

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