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Re: -e does not take effects in subshell

From: Linda Walsh
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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