Re: [Bug-ed] Ed scripts failing in versions after ~1.10

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

David Given wrote:
> Adding -l does produce an exit status of 0 --- but will this still cause
> genuine failures if, for example, there's a syntax error in the script?

Sadly the current implementation of '-l' is pretty simple. It will 
ignore about any error:

$ ed -v ; echo $?
b
?
Unknown command
q
1

$ ed -v -l ; echo $?
b
?
Unknown command
q
0