cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ast-developers] Why does 'typeset -M blabla0 x' abort the shell instead returning just with non-zero exit code? --------
> Why does 'typeset -M blabla0 x' abort the shell instead returning just > with non-zero exit code? > > I tried this and ksh93 (20121012) aborted the shell immediately: > ~/bin/ksh -c 'typeset -M blabla0 x ; print $?' > /home/ced/bin/ksh: typeset: blabla0: unknown mapping name > > Ced > -- > Cedric Blancher <[email protected]> > Institute Pasteur > typeset is a special builtin and has the properies listed in the standard for special builtins. One property is that errors cause a script to terminate. If you use command typeset ... then typeset will behave like a regular builtin and not abort the script. David Korn [email protected] _______________________________________________ ast-users mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.research.att.com/mailman/listinfo/ast-users
