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by coldtea 3374 days ago
Well, Rust and Haskell might not be for the job, but sh and bash are clearly broken and in many ways.

-eu should have been the default from the start, for one.
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TorKlingberg 3374 days ago
Well, for scripts. set -e on an interactive shell is a bit of a challenge.
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coldtea 3374 days ago
A shell could, and I'm going out on a limb here, check whether it's interactive or not and just enforce the -e in the appropriate case...
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harryjo 3374 days ago
interactive commands should abort the command on unset variable
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tomjakubowski 3374 days ago
"Abort command if variables are unset" is the -u flag, not -e. Both were mentioned long ago in this thread, but GP was talking about -e being painful for interactive shells. Imagine an interactive shell exiting as soon as a user's command failed!
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dllthomas 3374 days ago
> Imagine an interactive shell exiting as soon as a user's command failed!

Hardcore mode.

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