AW: Misbehavior with constants and bash script

2018-11-20 Thread Alexander Reintzsch
Hello Chet, thank you for your help and pointing to the posix behavior. Quoting https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Bash-POSIX-Mode.html "[...] A non-interactive shell exits with an error status if a variable assignment error occurs when no command name follows the assignment sta

Misbehavior with constants and bash script

2018-11-19 Thread Alexander Reintzsch
Hello, I think I have found some unexpected behavior related to constants in bash scripts. Here is a bash script as a short proof of concept. #!/bin/bash function foo { echo "A" declare -r vconst="I am fixed." echo "B" declare vconst="new value" echo "C"

Misbehavior with constants and bash script

2018-11-19 Thread Alexander Reintzsch
Hello, I think I have found some unexpected behavior related to constants in bash scripts. I have attached the short proof of concept bash script. Usually bash scripts continue when they face an error with one command but this script shows some weired behavior. It exits all the functions it has c