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Re: [Help-bash] Bash Trap: How to Get Line Number of a Subprocess with N
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: [Help-bash] Bash Trap: How to Get Line Number of a Subprocess with Non-Zero Status |
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Mon, 2 Jan 2017 13:09:32 -0500 |
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On 1/2/17 4:59 AM, Steve Amerige wrote:
> From an end-user's perspective, it is unexpected that the LINENO has the
> value of the
> beginning of the function instead of the line at which the ERR was caught
> by trap.
Sure, it's missing functionality. Eduardo's patch was pretty much spot-on.
It will be fixed in the next version of bash, at least.
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