Re: /bin/zsh -ce 'false; echo bug'

["Owen M. Astley" <oma1000@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Matt Watson wrote:

> gnumake-3.74 wants to use "/bin/sh -ce <commandstring>" to exec a sub  
> make. Unfortunately if zsh == sh, zsh doesn't grok the -ce as separate  
> options, so it ignores the "e" and does not set ERREXIT.
> 
> Should it? Has anyone else come across this?

I 'think' that POSIX doesn't allow for options of this type, it should be
written as -c -e <commandstring>.  However, I can't remember where I  read
that, and as most shells seem to cope with it, it should be done.

Is there any reason why parseargs() doesn't use getopt?

Owen