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Re: -e does not take effects in subshell

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From Linda Walsh <bash@tlinx.org>
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Subject Re: -e does not take effects in subshell
Date Wed, 19 Aug 2015 14:58:02 -0700
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Greg Wooledge wrote:
> 
> (Wow, how did we get here from "-e does not take effects in subshell"?)
> 
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because the POSIX spec changed and bash's handling of "-e"
changed to follow the new spec.

The earlier spec had -e only exit a script if a *simple* (external)
command failed.  It didn't include builtins nor functions.


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Re: -e does not take effects in subshell Linda Walsh <bash@tlinx.org> - 2015-08-19 14:58 -0700

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