Re: failed grep should cause subshell to exit

[Chris Down]

On 2013-08-26 21:41, David Lehmann wrote:
> I expected the '!' to reverse the exit code, such that if the grep return 0
> (success), the expression would return 1 (failure); if the grep returned
> non-zero (failure), the expression would return 0 (success).   i.e. I
> expected the '!' to behave like it does in C.

It does -- like Andreas said, it just makes it immune to `set -e'.

    $ set -e
    $ > file
    $ ! grep foo file
    $ echo $?
    0

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