Re: sh: set -o pipefail by default

[Chet Ramey via austin-group-l at The Open Group]

On 1/11/24 3:53 AM, Andrew Pennebaker via austin-group-l at The Open Group wrote:

With sh gaining set -o pipefail, I am curious about having sh require (or encourage) enabling this option by default. it would help to catch a lot of false negatives in deceptively simple scripts.

No. This would break a large body of existing scripts, and it's not the
purpose of the standard. Any implementation can choose to default it to
enabled, of course.

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