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Re: command substitution is stripping set -e from options

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> Yes, it's how bash has always behaved, at least back to bash-1.14 when
> I stopped looking.  Around bash-2.05, it changed to preserve the -e
> option when in Posix mode.

Is there any reason not to preserve it?

> That exception from default bash behavior is documented in the Posix
> Mode section of the texinfo manual.

Thanks, the bash manpage indeed references:

http://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/bash/POSIX

(btw: would it make sense to add this as a manpage, e.g. as bash-posix?)

The relevant point seems to be:

 36. Subshells spawned to execute command substitutions inherit the
     value of the `-e' option from the parent shell.  When not in POSIX
     mode, Bash clears the `-e' option in such subshells.

Now I'm still curious why this isn't the default behaviour in bash?

Thanks,
Chris
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Re: command substitution is stripping set -e from options Christoph Gysin <christoph.gysin@gmail.com> - 2015-10-02 14:25 +0300

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