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[question] && chaining vs shell loops

From
Max Kirillov <max@max630.net>
Date
Mar 29, 2015, 15:48 UTC
Message-ID
<20150329154840.GA8771@wheezy.local>
Hi.

As far as I can see, loops in shell ignore non-zero exit codes of the bodies which are not last. For example, exit code of command 'for f in false true; do $f; done' is 0, even if there was false.

How should one workaround it in test scripts, is there any established approach?

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Max
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