Yup, that is pitfall 8 here - https://oils.pub/release/latest/doc/error-handling.html#list-of-pitfalls https://oils.pub/release/latest/doc/error-handling.html#l

Yup, that is pitfall 8 here - https://oils.pub/release/latest/doc/error-handling.html#list-of-pitfalls https://oils.pub/release/latest/doc/error-handling.html#list... I think I got that from the Wooledge Wiki Explicit error handling seems fine in theory, and of course you can use that style with OSH if you want But in practice, set -e seems more common. For example, Alpine Linux abuild is a big production shell script, and they gradually switched to set -e (really, you're damned if you do, and damned if you don't, so that is a big reason YSH exists)