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Re:Shell Script Best Practices, from a decade of scripting t... by arendtio on Saturday October 29, 2022 @06:37PM (#33388655)
Yes and my personal favorite: Functions can behave differently depending on, if they are being called from a conditional expression vs. from a normal context. Errexit has no effect if the function is called from a conditional expression.
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