Re: Exclamation mark does not work with set -e

From	Chris Down <chris@chrisdown.name>
Newsgroups	gnu.bash.bug
Subject	Re: Exclamation mark does not work with set -e
Date	2020-04-06 15:50 +0100
Message-ID	<mailman.255.1586184659.2644.bug-bash@gnu.org> (permalink)
References	<2f74-5e8b3d80-85-5823c700@26668721> <20200406145053.GA489646@chrisdown.name>

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fb@florentbordignon.fr writes:
>The following assertion succeeds when it should not :
>set -e
>! true
>echo Hello # prints Hello but should not

Please do read the documentation before reporting bugs :-)

If you read the documentation for `-e`, you'll see that if the command is being 
inverted with `!`, `set -e` does not apply.

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Re: Exclamation mark does not work with set -e Chris Down <chris@chrisdown.name> - 2020-04-06 15:50 +0100

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