Martijn Dekker dixit: >http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V3_chap02.html#tag_18_25 >| 2. The -e setting shall be ignored when executing the compound list >| following the while, until, if, or elif reserved word, a pipeline >| beginning with the ! reserved word, or any command of an AND-OR list >| other than the last.
I checked that, and indeed, the pipeline is part of the AND-OR list, not vice versa, and yes, this was a bug in mksh. I believe it fixed now and hope it’s without adding any regressions; testing welcome, as this will otherwise quickly end up becoming mksh R53b as the freeze for the next Debian is close :| Dankjewel, //mirabilos -- «MyISAM tables -will- get corrupted eventually. This is a fact of life. » “mysql is about as much database as ms access” – “MSSQL at least descends from a database” “it's a rebranded SyBase” “MySQL however was born from a flatfile and went downhill from there” – “at least jetDB doesn’t claim to be a database” ‣‣‣ Please, http://deb.li/mysql and MariaDB, finally die!
