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by harryjo 3379 days ago
interactive commands should abort the command on unset variable
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tomjakubowski 3379 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 3379 days ago
> Imagine an interactive shell exiting as soon as a user's command failed!

Hardcore mode.

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