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Re: exiting noninteractive shells on 'shift 2'

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  Re: exiting noninteractive shells on 'shift 2' Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> - 2018-11-09 11:42 -0500

#14787 — Re: exiting noninteractive shells on 'shift 2'

On 11/9/18 11:22 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 11/9/18 8:52 AM, Chet Ramey wrote:
>> On 11/9/18 9:47 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
>>
>>> Well, there's STILL a conformance issue - the standard requires that unless
>>> documented otherwise, any time a command line tool exits with non-zero
>>> status, that it outputs a message to stderr explaining the error.
>>
>> Where?
>>

>     A diagnostic message shall be written to standard error whenever an
> error condition occurs."
> 
> Since 'shift 2' when $# is 1 is an error, and results in non-zero status,
> it should print a diagnostic to stderr.

So maybe the thing to do is to turn on the shift_verbose option in posix
mode.

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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU    chet@case.edu    http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/

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