Aaron Rainbolt on Nostr: Disturbing shell scripting fact for the day - both `true` and `echo ''` can exit ...
Disturbing shell scripting fact for the day - both `true` and `echo ''` can exit non-zero. All you have to do is get in some esoteric edge case that results in a SIGPIPE being triggered.
Guess what I just spent the last thirty minutes of my life trying to figure out.
#bash #sh #linux
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