Re: Trapping failed commands

[David Boyce]

At 09:27 PM 2/1/2005, Paul D. Smith wrote:
> %% address@hidden (Vite Schnell) writes:
>
>   vs> I'm trying to prevent Make from exiting upon receiving a non-zero
>   vs> exit status value from a command.  Is there any way I can "trap" a
>   vs> failure in order to keep processing other targets?
>
> foo:
>       command || true

I prefer to save a fork/exec and also remove an unnecessary dependence on PATH:

foo:
        command ||:

Of course there are some shells for which "true" is a builtin but ":" has 
been one since the beginning of time.

-dsb