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Re: [Help-bash] set -e and CMD_IGNORE_RETURN question
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: [Help-bash] set -e and CMD_IGNORE_RETURN question |
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Thu, 8 Mar 2018 15:02:26 -0500 |
> It is how POSIX defines set -e to work, which is based on the historical
> usage of this misfeature. It is not what you think it is. It exists
> only to support the continued lurching and shambling of legacy scripts.
set -e still exists to support `make' and `make -i'. I was reminded of this
plenty of times before the Posix text got fixed a few years back.
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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU address@hidden http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/