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Re: [zsh] How to mimic errexit within subshell (or function)?

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[fixing a typo here]

In <jns0pa$apr$1@reader1.panix.com> kj <no.email@please.post> writes:


>...But now I'm **really** confused.  I don't why the first
                                             ^
                                            get

>subshell below (i.e. your version) terminates upon error but the
>second one (mine) doesn't:

>% ( set -e; printf a; false; printf b ); echo $?
>a1
>% ( set -e; printf a; false; printf b ) || echo $?
>ab% 

>Actually, I don't understand why mine doesn't work, period, since
>I can't find anything in the zsh docs saying that it shouldn't...
>Any pointers to the place in the zsh docs where this is explained
>would be much appreciated.  (I hope that *some day* I'll learn to
>find my way around the zsh documentation, but I'm nowhere near that
>point yet.)

>~kj

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[zsh] How to mimic errexit within subshell (or function)? kj <no.email@please.post> - 2012-05-01 21:20 +0000
  Re: [zsh] How to mimic errexit within subshell (or function)? Stephane Chazelas <stephane.chazelas@gmail.com> - 2012-05-02 07:34 +0100
    Re: [zsh] How to mimic errexit within subshell (or function)? Geoff Clare <geoff@clare.See-My-Signature.invalid> - 2012-05-02 13:51 +0100
      Re: [zsh] How to mimic errexit within subshell (or function)? Stephane Chazelas <stephane.chazelas@gmail.com> - 2012-05-02 14:29 +0100
    Re: [zsh] How to mimic errexit within subshell (or function)? kj <no.email@please.post> - 2012-05-02 19:33 +0000
      Re: [zsh] How to mimic errexit within subshell (or function)? Stephane Chazelas <stephane.chazelas@gmail.com> - 2012-05-02 20:53 +0100
  Re: [zsh] How to mimic errexit within subshell (or function)? Martin Vaeth <vaeth@mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de> - 2012-05-02 10:30 +0000
    Re: [zsh] How to mimic errexit within subshell (or function)? kj <no.email@please.post> - 2012-05-02 19:09 +0000
      Re: [zsh] How to mimic errexit within subshell (or function)? kj <no.email@please.post> - 2012-05-02 19:12 +0000
      Re: [zsh] How to mimic errexit within subshell (or function)? Stephane Chazelas <stephane.chazelas@gmail.com> - 2012-05-02 20:27 +0100
        Re: [zsh] How to mimic errexit within subshell (or function)? kj <no.email@please.post> - 2012-05-03 18:20 +0000

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