On Jan 05 2025, Tobi Laskowski wrote:
> "It may be safe, however, it is a bit tedious...
Wow. I remember once I corrected an obvious flaw in a major project's CICD
bash scripts involving quoting and the trap builtin. You'd have thought I'd
have tried to chop somebody's fingers off.
Wiley
> | It is not possible to have a naive SHELLOPTS=myopt configured outside
> | the shell without all future options being exported implicitly.
> I have never used SHELLOPTS, and have never tested this, but:
> Does "unset SHELLOPTS" not work?
It gives:
bash: unset: SHELLOPTS: cannot unset
On 1/5/25 6:17 AM, Tobi Laskowski wrote:
This does not cover the specific behaviour I am concerned with. I would expect
something like:
"Additionally, if it is in the environment at start up, the variable is
automatically exported and shell options enabled subsequently through other means wil
On 1/4/25 2:47 PM, Tobi Laskowski wrote:
Hello,
I'd like to ask about an odd behaviour relating to the SHELLOPTS environment
variable. This is present in version 5.2.37(1)-release and in the development
version.
It's the behavior of every bash version going back to bash-2.0.
In this case,
On 1/5/25 5:10 AM, Koichi Murase wrote:
I confirmed this behavior, which I think is unreasonable.
$ (export SHELLOPTS; set -u; bash +u -c 'echo $unset')
bash: line 1: unset: unbound variable
I think an option explicitly specified in the command-line arguments
should take precedence over
On 1/5/25 8:09 AM, Robert Elz wrote:
Date:Sun, 5 Jan 2025 11:17:05 +
From:Tobi Laskowski
Message-ID:
| It is not possible to have a naive SHELLOPTS=myopt configured outside
| the shell without all future options being exported implicitly.
I have neve
On 1/5/25 5:13 AM, Oğuz wrote:
Maybe. I'm not sure if propagating shell options to child shells was the
intended primary use.
It was a long time ago (1995), but yes, that was one of the primary use
cases.
With ENV/BASH_ENV you can already do that and more, I
don't see the point in adding an
On 1/5/25 3:59 AM, Martin D Kealey wrote:
On Sun, 5 Jan 2025 at 15:18, Oğuz wrote:
This is documented in the manual:
In other words, it's broken by design.
You seem awfully sure of the correctness of your opinion.
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