| From: David Mason <dmason@ryerson.ca> | | On 17 August 2015 at 01:42, D. Hugh Redelmeier <hugh@mimosa.com> wrote: | | > | From: Chris F.A. Johnson <chris@cfajohnson.com> | > | > | Best practice is not to use it at all. | > | | > | <http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/105> | > | | Sorry, late to this thread, but that page doesn't refer to -u That's my fault for trimming too much. Please look back to the previous message (I don't like endless non-targetted quoting). This part was about "set -e". Chris points out that the limitations of -e are not obvious and concludes that the feature is best avoided. The main non-obvious limitation seems to be that failing subshells don't cause the script to stop. Remember that pipelines include subshells. --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org http://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk