Dan Stromberg wrote: > > Is there a way of getting "set -o pipefail" to be inherited from a shell > to its subshell? Or does each subshell have to set it again?
It depends on what kind of subshell you're talking about. Subshells that don't cause a new copy of the shell to be executed inherit nearly everything. Other subshells can inherit the values of shell options by exporting the `SHELLOPTS' variable, as described in the man page. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer Live Strong. No day but today. Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/