On 8/3/18 9:29 AM, Thomas Deutschmann wrote: > Hi, > > please see the following script: > >> #!/bin/bash >> shopt -s failglob >> if [[ $? -ne 0 ]]; then >> echo 'shopt failed' >> exit 1 >> fi >> >> # Let's view current options just to be sure >> shopt -p >> >> # The following glob should fail because /foo/bar does not exist ... >> # Due to 'failglob' option, bash should stop here >> echo /foo/bar/* >> >> # This code should never run if previous glob failed >> echo Still alive > > Is the assumption true that "Still alive" should *never* be printed > when "/foo/bar" does not exist?
It might be an assumption, but it's not correct. The documentation says
that failglob affects the command:
"If the failglob shell option is set, and no matches are
found, an error message is printed and the command is not executed."
> When you add "set -e" to the beginning, execution will stop immediately
> after the failing glob, i.e. no "Still alive" will be printed.
Because set -e will cause the shell to exit when a command fails.
>
> However, see the following interesting difference between semicolons and
> newlines:
>
>> $ echo "shopt -s failglob; echo /foo/bar/*; echo alive; " | bash
>> bash: line 1: no match: /foo/bar/*
>> $ echo "shopt -s failglob; echo /foo/bar/*; echo alive; " | sed 's:; :\n:g'
>> | bash
>> bash: line 2: no match: /foo/bar/*
>> alive
>> $ echo "set -e; shopt -s failglob; echo /foo/bar/*; echo alive; " | sed 's:;
>> :\n:g' | bash
>> bash: line 3: no match: /foo/bar/*
The failglob option affects the command. The `difference' between a line
and multiple lines is that bash always reads at least one complete line of
input before parsing and executing any of the commands on that line. As
a result:
shopt -s failglob; echo /foo/bar/*; echo alive
is a single compound command, and
shopt -s failglob
echo /foo/bar/*
echo alive
is three simple commands. So failglob causes the current command to fail,
which means the compound command (first case) or the simple command
(second case).
`failglob' has behaved this way since it was introduced in bash-3.0.
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