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by xelxebar 1560 days ago
Interesting bug you found!

It sounds our sensibilities are similar regarding cli and tool usage. This is a side note, but as someone who used to use "Bash strict mode" in all my scripts, I'm now a bit bearish on `set -e`, mainly due to the subtle caveats. If you're interested, the link below has a nice (and long) list of potentially surprising errexit gotchas:

https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/105

(The list begins below the anecdote.)