On Sat, Jan 5, 2019, 4:05 PM Robert Hailey <b...@osndok.com wrote: > > To the most excellent bash maintainers: > > I have found, what I consider to be a bug, in the following version of > bash: > * bash-4.4.23-1.fc28.x86_64 > > It is related to this error message: > * "return: can only `return' from a function or sourced script" > > When used inappropriately (such as running a correctly-written script > that was merely intended to be sourced rather than executed), the > return statement does not cease execution, and "falls through" to > continue executing the script beyond the point that the author of the > script clearly indicated that it should cease into realms of arbitrary > and unexpected code paths. > > Best wishes, kind regards, and heartfelt thank-you for your > dedicated service to the community. > > -- > Robert Hailey >
You should be able to protect yourself from this by detecting if a script is not being sourced when it's intended that it must be and acting accordingly. You could also do the following if you want a script to work under either condition: return 2>&1 || exit Or substitute another action for exit. Note that I'm ignoring possible caveats. >
