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Re: set -e, braces and compound commands
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Andreas Schwab |
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Re: set -e, braces and compound commands |
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Fri, 11 Feb 2011 10:57:28 +0100 |
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Daniel Villeneuve <daniel2villeneuve@videotron.ca> writes:
> For reference, I've consulted
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.standards.posix.austin.general/282,
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.shells.bash.bugs/13465 and
> the current public POSIX spec I have access to which still says:
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> *-e*
> When this option is on, if a simple command fails for any of the
A compound command is not a simple command. Only failing simple
commands cause the shell to exit.
Andreas.
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