Robert Elz <k...@munnari.oz.au> wrote: > | For some commands you need to do that (e.g. if you like to check whether > | "set -o posix" is usable. > > Huh? What shell, anywhere, exits on command not found ? (that is, not > counting when the command that was not found was the last, and not when > it was run via "exec").
all conforming shells exit with "set -o bla" in a script. ksh93 -c 'set -o bla; echo huhu' ksh93[1]: set: bla: bad option(s) Usage: set [-sabefhkmnprtuvxBCGH] [-A name] [-o[option]] [arg ...] Jörg -- EMail:jo...@schily.net (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.org/private/ http://sf.net/projects/schilytools/files/'