On 11/19/15 2:06 AM, Grisha Levit wrote: > Not sure if this is a documentation bug or a functional one, but the man page > does not seem to agree with the observed behavior for return when invoked in > DEBUG traps.
Thanks for the report. The internal trap handler used for DEBUG and other signals the shell treats specially needed to pick up the argument supplied to `return' as well as noting `return' was called. This affects the DEBUG, RETURN, and ERROR traps. 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/