On 6/29/23 8:51 AM, Chet Ramey wrote:
It should be consistent, at least. I think the string assignment behavior
is the most reasonable: assignments return 1 but there's no assignment
error. I'll look at how compound assignments are different.
I have reconsidered this. Making assignments that are supposed to be
ignored set $? to 1 means that a shell with errexit enabled will exit.
I don't think that's desirable. I don't think attempted assignments to
noassign variables should change $?.
Chet
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