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Re: errortracing inside || and eval
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: errortracing inside || and eval |
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Wed, 30 Nov 2022 11:18:06 -0500 |
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On 11/30/22 8:56 AM, Tycho Kirchner wrote:
Hi!
We would like to run an error trap inside a function, even if it is called
within || -> func || true.
While bash's manpage documents in the trap-section that no error trap runs
"if the failed command ... is part of a command executed in ||", we found
the following workaround, using "eval":
This is a bug in eval.
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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/