Date: Sun, 17 May 2026 21:47:54 -0400
From: Zachary Santer <[email protected]>
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| An interactive shell does not exit, but does not execute the
| command associated with the expansion and any containing function
| calls exit with a nonzero status.
That's too specific, the general rule for when a non-interactive shell
would exit because of some condition or other, is that interactive shells
instead abandon all they are doing, whatever it is, and return immediately
to the highest level command prompt (issue PS1 and wait for a new command
with $? set to indicate failure).
I have no reason to believe bash differs from all other shells in this regard,
though it does sometimes wrt the question of whether the event in question is
one which would make a non-interactive shell exit.
kre
