Re: use of set -e inside parenthesis and conditionnal second command

[Dale R. Worley]

Rusty Bird <rustybird@net-c.com> writes:
>> The behavior of set -e is extremely surprising [...]

> Has it ever been considered to add something like 'shopt -s
> composable_compound'? Roughly meaning "execution and exit status of a
> compound command are not changed by surrounding context (in the sense
> of logical operators, or being the condition of an if statement etc.)"
>
> That, together with 'set -e -o pipefail; shopt -s inherit_errexit'
> seems like it would go a long way towards easier error handling.

Better than figuring out how to create a modification of "-e", it's
probably better to design "easier error handling" from scratch, and
define an entirely new option to activate it.

Dale