Consequences of shell errors

be missing something. Can someone explain why the first 2 examples do not exit on the error in the expansion? *______* *Nick Stoughton* *Aether Things Inc * *San Francisco* +1 (510) 388 1413

Re: dead link

The problem is that the link under [promptvars] points to http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Controlling-the-Prompt.html#Controlling-the-Prompt, and not to the link mentioned above. *__* *Nick Stoughton* *Aether Things Inc * *San Francisco* +1 (510