Re: return exit code in EXIT trap

[Chet Ramey]

On 8/6/22 2:44 PM, Robert Elz wrote:

> It is possible (and seems so, from messages in this thread) that bash allows
> a return in the trap string (not in a function called in that string) if the
> trap occurs while executing a function (then the return applies to that
> function).

Every shell allows this. Since the trap `action' is processed as if it were
invoked as `eval action', a return directly in it -- and not in a shell
function that `action' executes -- applies to a function that was executing
when the trap was executed.


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