On 23/03/17 09:34, Greg Wooledge wrote: > 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.
OK let's not derail this into a discussion specific to errexit. Can we please improve things? You say to not use errexit, and instead use `|| exit 1` where appropriate. In that case can we fix this case? set -o pipefail yes | head -n1 || exit 1 echo this is skipped cheers, Pádraig
