set -e and short tests
When I was new to shell scripting, I used a lot of short tests instead of if statements, like false && true . Then later I learned using set -e , and found my scripts were dying for some reason, and they would work if I replaced the short tests with full if statements. Now, the time has gone, and I still use full if statements only. The most interesting is that if I open an interactive shell and do the following: set -e false && true echo $? it returns 1 but the shell doesn't die! I see that I have been wasting too many lines of code. Anyone could explain to me how can I use set -e with short