Marc Weber wrote: > This is my point: I'd like to tell bash: Whenever running an executable > assume that if it returns a non zero exit status that's a unforeseen > exception. And in this case don't continue as usual but abort and return > non zero exit status yourself. set -e comes close.
You're talking about making bash exit when a command fails even when not in a command execution context. The example above is a word expansion context. `set -e' acts in a command execution context. Nor are you talking only about executables; you mean builtins too, just to make that clear. Your proposal would have bash exit on echo `expr $var - 1` if `var' happened to be 1. (That construct is very common in older shell code.) I don't think that extension would be useful enough to be worth the effort. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
