> >On 06/16/2014 11:05 PM, Kevin A. McGrail wrote:
> >> BTW anyone know what set -ex does in practice in a shell script?

In bash, set -ex will set both -e (abort on error) and -x (print trace).
While -x is just cosmetics for debugging, -e changes script semantics
quite a bit.  This is just a complicated noop:

#!/bin/bash
set -e
false
echo hi

Regards,
Marc

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