If you "set -e", you probably also want to "set pipefail". By default, a pipeline returns the return value of the last element. pipefail means that if any ele

If you "set -e", you probably also want to "set pipefail". By default, a pipeline returns the return value of the last element. pipefail means that if any element of the pipeline fails, then the pipeline as a whole will fail. I discovered this the hard way when I had: make run-asan-test | c++filt And even if the tests failed, the script would succeed.