On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 10:45 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 10:39:59AM -0700, Mark Ferrell wrote:
>> I'm sorry, but the lack of consistency still sounds like it is a bug
>> in bash. The behaviour I would expect is functionally equivalent to
>> 'do_cmd > /dev/null 2>&1 || err_
On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 10:39:59AM -0700, Mark Ferrell wrote:
> I'm sorry, but the lack of consistency still sounds like it is a bug
> in bash. The behaviour I would expect is functionally equivalent to
> 'do_cmd > /dev/null 2>&1 || err_handler'. Further more, this IS the
> behaviour seen if the
I stand corrected. After adding a 'touch' to the script, it does
indeed appear to be calling the exit handler. So it the redirection
of the output to the error handler only happens if a builtin/function
failed (error on an external command does not result in a
redirection), and this behaviour is
On 5/18/14, 12:56 PM, Mark Ferrell wrote:
> I believe that if you actually execute the script as intended you will
> find that your reading of the code is incorrect. Really though,
> redirection should not be the problem since:
>
> 1. Redirection of the output of one command does not change the
