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Re: [question] && chaining vs shell loops

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Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Date
Mar 29, 2015, 16:07 UTC
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Max Kirillov <max@max630.net> writes:
> 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.

There is nothing special with loops, that's how the exit code of compound commands is defined in general: it's the exit code of the last executed command.

Andreas.
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