On 2009-02-10, Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@case.edu> wrote: > I'm not immediately sure where you got that, but the documentation makes > it clear: > > -e Exit immediately if a simple command (see SHELL GRAMMAR > above) exits with a non-zero status. The shell does not > exit if the command that fails is part of the command > list immediately following a while or until keyword, > part of the test in an if statement, part of a && or || > list, or if the command's return value is being inverted > via !. A trap on ERR, if set, is executed before the > shell exits.
Could it perhaps be amended to explicitly exclude pipes, along with all the other exclusions listed? Until now I thought a pipe would also cause an exit if it failed. In a way, it might have been better if the documentation had stopped at the first sentence. But by explicitly listing some exclusions, it made me think I don't really need to go lookup what precisely is a simple command. Just a suggestion...
