Re: :? within a function

Chet Ramey <[email protected]> Mon, 18 May 2026 15:49:40 -0400

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On 5/18/26 5:02 AM, Robert Elz wrote:

>    | 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,

The behavior is more varied than you think. Bash, yash, and mksh do it one
way, ksh93 and the ash-based shells (dash, netbsd sh, etc.) do it the other.

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