On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 08:50:45AM -0700, Pádraig Brady wrote: > I was bitten by this again when combined with set -e. > I.E. this script doesn't finish: > > #!/bin/bash > set -o errexit > set -o pipefail > yes | head -n1 > echo finished > > That makes the errexit and pipefail options decidedly less useful.
No. It makes errexit less useful. Errexit (a.k.a. set -e) is horrible, and you should not be using it in any new shell scripts you write. It exists solely for support of legacy scripts.
