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Thorsten Kampe wrote:
> Sure, it does. It's called "intelligent scripting" and it
> includes setting "errexit" and "nounset" in bash or Z Shell.
> If you are scripting 
> and not using those above, then you got exactly what you
> deserved.

Thanks for the tip, Thorsten! Any ideas what the best practice is for doing this in Makefile rules? It seems rather onerous to put this in *every* rule.

dante



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