[jmts]

My understanding of 'set -e' is to ensure that errors are handled appropriately, not to brute force around them. If an error occurs that is not handled, this is treated as a problem and the script exits to ensure that one failure doesn't cause additional unforeseen problems as a result of the script running to completion.

[godelski]

The brute force method is the force flag (eg: `rm -f`). `set -e` is error handling. Force flag was constantly used in the post which is what I disagree with.