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0 pointsatombender5y ago0 comments

If by pain you mean you have to handle errors, yes, that's what you have to do. It's no different from checking the return code of functions in C.

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zwkrt5y ago

But there are tools that don't follow this paradigm. Famously, grep fails with err=1 if it doesn't find a match, even though 'no match' is a perfectly valid result of a search.

Yes. So I don't use set -e.

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