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<p>Thanks for the pointer, Dave.</p>
<p>I have made a note of it. Hopefully my future bash code will be
better because of it.</p>
<p>Craig...<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/3/24 07:33, Dave Hylands wrote:<br>
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<div dir="auto">There are still some things I prefer to use bash
for rather than Python (usually involving transforming the
output of a program). But yeah it’s amazing what you can do with
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I tend to use trap a lot more in scripts that get used in a more
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<div dir="auto">I’ve also found myself putting the incantation:</div>
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<div dir="auto">`set -Eeuo pipefail` </div>
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<div dir="auto">at the top of all my bash scripts.</div>
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<div dir="auto">This page gives an detailed explanation of most of
what that means:
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<div dir="auto">The -E makes trap statements get inherited by
shell functions.</div>
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<div dir="auto">I find these options to be extremely useful,
especially in build commands involved by make. Otherwise lots
of failures were silently being absorbed rather than halting
the build.</div>
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<div dir="auto">Dave Hylands<br>
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