Greg Wooledge: > The behavior of set -e is extremely surprising, and people should > stop expecting it to make intuitive sense. The best way to avoid being > surprised by it is to stop using it altogether.
Has it ever been considered to add something like 'shopt -s composable_compound'? Roughly meaning "execution and exit status of a compound command are not changed by surrounding context (in the sense of logical operators, or being the condition of an if statement etc.)" That, together with 'set -e -o pipefail; shopt -s inherit_errexit' seems like it would go a long way towards easier error handling. Rusty
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