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by saurik 3382 days ago
I also do this. However, literally just hours ago, Greg Wooledge, author of The Bash Guide, posted the following to the GNU bug-bash mailing list.

> Errexit (a.k.a. set -e) is horrible, and you should not be using it in any new shell scripts you write. It exists solely for support of legacy scripts.

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2017-03/msg00170....

edit: I asked after this (for whatever reason, my email isn't yet showing in the archives; maybe it will appear later), and got an interesting response!

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2017-03/msg00171....