Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!phri!marob!daveh
From: daveh@marob.MASA.COM (Dave Hammond)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Shell error exit question
Message-ID: <354@marob.MASA.COM>
Date: 8 Aug 88 16:58:48 GMT
Reply-To: daveh@marob.UUCP (Dave Hammond)
Organization: 18th Street Construction Co NY NY
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Dumb question #4,287 -

How does one get /bin/sh to NOT exit when processing a script which produces
"not found", or other potentially recoverable errors ?

Yes, I RTFM: according to the manual, "Errors detected by the shell ...
cause the shell to return a nonzero exit status. If the shell is being used
noninteractively, execution of the shell file is abandoned."

The reason I suspect there's a work-around is that I've tried the same script
with Ksh and it merrily continues processing even if "not found" errors occur.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Dave Hammond                                                /dsix2!daveh
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DOMAIN: dsix2!daveh@masa.com                                \marob!daveh
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