Re: set -e again

[Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost>]

>> [...set -e vs shell functions...]

> Does this achieve what you want?

> #!/bin/sh
> set -e
> f() {
> 	echo foo
> 	false
> 	echo bar
> }
> f
> [ $? ] || echo baz
> echo buzz

I'm not the original poster, but it does not achieve what I would
expect, which is

foo
baz
buzz

That is, I would expect/want -e to cause the function to return showing
failure.  Instead, it either does nothing or takes down the whole
shell.

This does achieve it, not surprisingly, but it's an ugly kludge; I
would say that neither the nested sh nor the nested set -e should be
necessary:

set -e
f() {
sh -c '
	set -e
	echo "foo $-"
	false
	echo bar
'
}
f || echo baz
echo buzz

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