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		9woc 6 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Getting decent error reports in Bash when you're u... beware of using this. any operations that returns non-zero exit status will cause immediately exit

mk12 6 months ago [–]

For example `((n++))` where n is 0. I’m used to it enough that I usually remember to add `|| :` to the end of lines like this.

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