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Subject: Re: RFC: etcupdate tool in base?
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Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd@gmail.com> writes:
> 1. Script doesn't check to see whether or not it has write access (and
> doesn't catch some errors):

IMHO, any shell script which is intended to be used more than twice
should start with "set -e".

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