On 12/2/22 8:26 PM, Martin D Kealey wrote:
If anything is weird, it's that simple (bare) assignments set $? to 0
UNLESS there's a command substitution providing a status.
Why not, if the assignment is performed successfully? POSIX says all errors
in that context are fatal for non-interactive shells, but interactive
shells continue.
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