On 04/05/17 16:16, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > What's the real use-case here? If you do "set -e" in your shell you > also get e.g.: > > $ ls -l blah > ls: cannot access blah: No such file or directory > === Command terminated with exit status 2 (Thu May 4 11:16:03 2017) === > > I.e. any little failure will terminate your shell, are you actually > running a shell like this? For what purpose? If I want to copy and paste a list of commands and have the execution stop at a failure, I type "bash" then "set -e", then paste the commands. It saves me creating a script file and then removing it later. -- Tom Hale