Re: SECONDS=0 does not reset SECONDS, or I'm missing something

[Eli Schwartz]

On 6/4/20 9:29 AM, Steve Amerige wrote:
> I was offering some best practice advice as I don't think I'm
> constrained to answer just the question. :-)
> 
> I generally welcome best practice advice in this distribution list as
> subscribers tend to use
> this list not just to get their own questions answered, but also learn
> from others in the process.
> Please do feel free to ignore any comments that you are not interested in.

You are factually incorrect. set -o errexit is NOT best practice advice.

It is heavily disputed advice. The world is split between people who

a) think set -o errexit is the best thing ever, and is wonderful advice,
   and everyone should use it

b) think set -o errexit is horrificially horrible, a sign of incompetent
   fools, and literally the devil's work. It eats your shellscripts for
   lunch, aborts your script after completely normal commands, and
   changes its semantics in point releases of a shell. See
   http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/105


You had better be prepared for an internet debate nearly as heated as
the vim vs. emacs one, if you start telling people to use set -o errexit.

(FWIW, I'm one of the people who hold it to be the work of the devil, as
it were.)

-- 
Eli Schwartz
Arch Linux Bug Wrangler and Trusted User

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