On 1/30/08, Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stepan Koltsov wrote: > > set -e > > ( cd some-dir && ./build.sh ) > > ... > > Most readers (and writers) expect script to fail if "./build.sh" failed. So > > I think that outer bash should exit with error on "(false)" :-) > > Of course, script can be rewritten as > > ( cd some-dir && ./build.sh ) || false > > Of course the script can also be written as: > > make -C some-dir
-C flag of make is the reason while such strange behavior of bash is not well known ;-) S.
