On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 05:45:27PM +0000, Cedric Staniewski wrote: > Allan McRae wrote: > >From bash's manpage: > > > trap [-lp] [[arg] sigspec ...] > > [...] > > The ERR trap is not executed if the failed command is part of the command > > list immediately following a while or until keyword, part of the test in > > an if statement, part of a command executed in a && or || list, or if > > the command's return value is being inverted via !. > > Note that apparently only the test/[ builtin is meant here. >
I get the same results with both test/[ as with [[ Reusing your code, > set -E > trap 'echo >&2 "error"' ERR > > false > [ false ] > [[ false ]] > (( 0 )) > ! true Only the 'false' by itself triggers the trap. [ and [[ and treated the same.
