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Date:      Tue, 17 Mar 1998 17:04:26 -0800 (PST)
From:      dancy@franz.com
To:        freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   bin/6047: bash does not handle -e option properly
Message-ID:  <199803180104.RAA13084@hub.freebsd.org>

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>Number:         6047
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       bash does not handle -e option properly
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Mar 17 17:10:01 PST 1998
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Ahmon Dancy
>Organization:
Franz Inc.
>Release:        3.0-971225-SNAP
>Environment:
FreeBSD news2.franz.com 3.0-971225-SNAP FreeBSD 3.0-971225-SNAP #0: Mon Feb 23 08:20:57 PST 1998     root@news2.franz.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/NEWS  i386

>Description:
The following shell script does not work as it should:

#!/bin/sh
set -e

is_net_dir_p()
{
        case $1 in
        /net/*)
                return 0
                ;;
        *)      return 1
                ;;
        esac
}


if is_net_dir_p freebsd; then
        echo okay
fi
echo done

---
A properly working /bin/sh would print 'done' and exit.  Currently
nothing is printed and the shell silently exits.

The man page for 'sh' says:

     -e errexit
             If not interactive, exit immediately if any untested command
             fails.  The exit status of a command is considered to be explic-
             itly tested if the command is used to control an if, elif, while,
             or until; or if the command is the left hand operand of an ``&&''
             or ``||'' operator.

>How-To-Repeat:
Run my script above.

>Fix:

>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:

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