Re: set -e not ignored in AND-OR list

Herbert Xu <[email protected]> Sun, 10 Nov 2024 12:11:13 +0800
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.dash
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Christoph Anton Mitterer <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> $ $(foo) || true
> a

This is simply undefined behaviour.  Some shells will ignore set -e
within the command substitution subshell as a result of the ||, some
won't.  Dash does the latter.

Cheers,
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