Re: Revisiting Error handling (errexit)

[Yair Lenga]

Koichi  - Thanks for highlighting this 'local -'.

This feature effectively eliminates the need to support scoped 'errfail'.
If it's needed in a limited context, the 'local -' can be used.

Yair

On Wed, Jul 6, 2022 at 1:21 PM Koichi Murase <myoga.murase@gmail.com> wrote:

> 2022年7月6日(水) 19:05 Yair Lenga <yair.lenga@gmail.com>:
> > Function foo will run with errfail logic. But bash will revert back to no
> > errfail when control revert back to bar, and zap will run WITHOUT
> errfail.
> > I remember reading about other bash setting that are automatically
> restored
> > on function exits. Can not remember which one.
>
> That should be `local -' of Bash 4.4+. E.g.,
>
> function foo { local -; set -e; ...; }
>
> --
> Koichi
>