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[–] stetech@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

set -euo pipefail

Fun fact, if you’re forced to write against POSIX shell, you aren’t allowed to use these options, since they’re not a thing, which is (part of) the reason why for example Google doesn’t allow any shell language but bash, lol.

[–] jxk@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Btw, all three set options given above are included in POSIX since 2024: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/

[–] stetech@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Ooh, you’re totally right!! I forgot about that since it’s not in the older versions.