On 7/13/12 11:17 AM, Daniel Amthor wrote:
> Chet,
>
> 2012/7/13 Chet Ramey <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
>
> 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
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