Daniel Villeneuve <daniel2villene...@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: > > *-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. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."