Why does this compound command {...} not exit on error, when used with ||?

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                          I'm trying to run this script:

    #!/bin/bash -e

    { 
        echo "Doing something"; 
        will_fail                 # like false 

        echo "Worked"; 
    } || echo "Failed"

To my surprise, will_fail failed, but I did not see "Failed" on my command line, but "Worked".

Why did the compound command not exit with error after will_fail failed?
                        

Asked by Minix (6065 rep)

Sep 22, 2017, 09:40 AM
Last activity: Dec 23, 2021, 02:58 PM

Why does this compound command {...} not exit on error, when used with ||?

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