After so many years of using bash I assumed that there is nothing special to set -e that I wouldn't know so I didn't bother to look it up in the docs, my bad. Thanks for the answers!
2018-06-11 16:09 GMT+01:00 Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@case.edu>: > On 6/11/18 6:12 AM, Bartłomiej Palmowski wrote: > > > > > The issue is: > > $ cat bad > > ( > > set -e > > false > > echo "Shouldn't happen?" > > ) && : > > $ bash ./bad ; echo $? > > Shouldn't happen? > > 0 > > `set -e' is ignored for any command of an OR list except the last, whether > it is in effect before the command is executed or when enabled by the > command itself. > > -- > ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer > ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates > Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/ >