On Thu, Nov 8, 2018, 3:48 PM Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com> wrote: > If the n operand is invalid or is greater than "$#", this may be > considered a syntax error and a non-interactive shell may exit; if the > shell does not exit in this case, a non-zero exit status shall be > returned.
This seems to say that "shift N" *may* be considered an error *in which case* the rules in 2.8.1 must apply. But since bash does not consider it to be an error, it behaves as the second half of the sentence proscribes and returns a non-zero status. >
