Re: use of set -e inside parenthesis and conditionnal second command

[Rusty Bird]

Greg Wooledge:
> The behavior of set -e is extremely surprising, and people should
> stop expecting it to make intuitive sense.  The best way to avoid being
> surprised by it is to stop using it altogether.

Has it ever been considered to add something like 'shopt -s
composable_compound'? Roughly meaning "execution and exit status of a
compound command are not changed by surrounding context (in the sense
of logical operators, or being the condition of an if statement etc.)"

That, together with 'set -e -o pipefail; shopt -s inherit_errexit'
seems like it would go a long way towards easier error handling.

Rusty

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