Hi, lets consider the following:
$ echo $BASH_VERSION 4.1.2(1)-release $ cat /etc/system-release Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.3 (Santiago) $ ( set -e; echo foo; false; echo bar; ) # this one is expected foo $ ( set -e; echo foo; false; echo bar; ) || true # this one is not expected foo bar documentation (http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html) states that: [...] The shell does not exit if the command that fails is part of the command list immediately following a while or until keyword, part of the test in an if statement, part of any command executed in a && or || [...] In this case it is not clear since set -e is invoked inside subshell and || is outside this subshell. What I would expect to happen is ( set -e; echo foo; false; echo bar; ) || exit $? to exit with exit code of a last failed command in a subshell.
