On 11/13/20 11:15 AM, Aron Griffis wrote: > GNU bash, version 5.0.17(1)-release (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) > > $ (set -e; false; echo BANG) || echo whimper > BANG
`set -e' doesn't have any effect on the LHS of an and-or list, and enabling it has no effect. There have been many discussions about this. -- ``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/