To the most excellent bash maintainers:
I have found, what I consider to be a bug, in the following version of bash: * bash-4.4.23-1.fc28.x86_64 It is related to this error message: * "return: can only `return' from a function or sourced script" When used inappropriately (such as running a correctly-written script that was merely intended to be sourced rather than executed), the return statement does not cease execution, and "falls through" to continue executing the script beyond the point that the author of the script clearly indicated that it should cease into realms of arbitrary and unexpected code paths. Best wishes, kind regards, and heartfelt thank-you for your dedicated service to the community. -- Robert Hailey