Re: Interesting problem in timezoneconf package
On Sun, 2003-07-27 at 12:44, Colin Watson wrote:
> I tested this before posting. No, -e is a little more forgiving than
> that, as stated in bash(1):
>
> -e Exit immediately if a simple command (see SHELL
> GRAMMAR above) exits with a non-zero status.
> The shell does not exit if the command that
> fails is part of an until or while loop, part of
> an if statement, part of a && or || list, or if
> the command's return value is being inverted via
> !. A trap on ERR, if set, is executed before
> the shell exits.
I just tested this too, because I thought that one had to do
[ "$CTL" != "yes" ] || takeaction
rather than
[ "$CTL" = "yes" ] && takeaction
when -e was set in order to avoid immediate exit on the failure
of the "$CTL"="yes" test. Experiments prove that neither of
these causes immediate exit, even though the second one does
have a nonzero status when "$CTL" != "yes".
--
Thomas
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