Re: Proposal for a New Bash Option: failfast for Immediate Pipeline Failure

[ama bamo]

I see, thank you then.
It was nice to hear from you.

Regards
Mateusz

On Fri, Jun 28, 2024 at 7:26 PM Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:

> On 6/24/24 10:21 AM, ama bamo wrote:
>
> > To address these issues, I propose the introduction of a new option,
> > failfast, which would immediately terminate the pipeline if any command
> in
> > the pipeline fails. This would streamline error handling and provide more
> > predictable script execution, aligning with user expectations in many
> > common use cases.
>
> I don't see general value in killing pipeline processes (using SIGKILL,
> possibly after trying SIGTERM first), as soon as one of them fails.
>
> Chet
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