Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2026 10:13:06 +0800
From: =?UTF-8?B?546L5Lyf?= <[email protected]>
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| The second method above also won't work. Isn't the purpose of a semicolon
| to create a new line? Does it have some other side effect?
Yes, the shell parses the entire command, until it has finished, and
a newline appears - if there's a shell detected error, the entire
parsed command is aborted.
In the case
test_crash
if ...
the "test_crash" will be parsed and executed (and fail), then the
shell will read the if (all of it) and execute that.
In
test_crash; anything_else
the shell will read and parse all of that (to the end of anything_else)
and then execute it. test_trash aborts with a shell error, nothing
else is executed.
kre
ps: it is really dumb to use bash extensions when standard portable
POSIX shell code works equally well, "[[ $? -ne 0 ]]" is not in the
slightest different from "[ $? -ne 0 ]" and the latter will work in
any shell - so use the latter, not the former. This of course makes
absolutely no difference to the point of these messages.
