On 7/13/12 11:17 AM, Daniel Amthor wrote: > Chet, > > 2012/7/13 Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@case.edu <mailto:chet.ra...@case.edu>> > > On 7/13/12 8:53 AM, Daniel Amthor wrote: > > Yeah, that's an assignment error. Posix says a non-interactive shell > should exit in that case and that an interactive shell should write an > error message without exiting. Bash doesn't exit the shell, but it does > cause the current command to fail. > > So...works as designed ?
Yes. I think aborting the shell script is a little drastic, but bash does it in Posix mode. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/