> Errexit (a.k.a. set -e) is horrible,
> and you should not be using it in any new shell scripts you write.
> It exists solely for support of legacy scripts.
Wow. For those of us who don't know this, what should we be using instead? Is
using a trap on ERR any better? Is your suggestion that ||
Please , in some future versions of bash, could it provide
support / help for avoiding "quoting hell", in such situations
as :
$ echo "
Error: Cannot find file '/missing/file_1'.
Error: Cannot find file '/missing/file_2'.
" | while read line; do
cmd='if [[ '$'"'"$line"$'"'' =~
On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 07:27:19PM +, Jay Freeman (saurik) wrote:
> > Errexit (a.k.a. set -e) is horrible,
> > and you should not be using it in any new shell scripts you write.
> > It exists solely for support of legacy scripts.
>
> Wow. For those of us who don't know this, what should we be
On 23/03/17 09:34, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 08:50:45AM -0700, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>> I was bitten by this again when combined with set -e.
>> I.E. this script doesn't finish:
>>
>> #!/bin/bash
>> set -o errexit
>> set -o pipefail
>> yes | head -n1
>> echo finished
>>
>> That
On 15/02/15 14:14, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 15/02/15 21:59, Daniel Colascione wrote:
>> On 02/15/2015 01:48 PM, Chet Ramey wrote:
>>> On 2/13/15 12:19 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
I was expecting bash to handle SIGPIPE specially here,
as in this context it's informational rather than an
On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 08:50:45AM -0700, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> I was bitten by this again when combined with set -e.
> I.E. this script doesn't finish:
>
> #!/bin/bash
> set -o errexit
> set -o pipefail
> yes | head -n1
> echo finished
>
> That makes the errexit and pipefail options decidedly
