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		shikoba on March 9, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Bugs in Hello World > not that the command returned 0 but that the file it made exists and is the right length If a command returns 0 when it didn't really do its job. Shouldn't we fix the command instead of the script?

bombcar on March 9, 2022 [–]

See the link for examples of bash and posix internals that don’t necessarily operate the way you’d expect.

shikoba on March 11, 2022 | [–]

They operate the way I expect. set -e fails when I don't handle the error code of a command. If my script eat it, it doesn't fail. I see no problems here.

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