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Re: PRINT_EXIT_VALUE: Suppress for if/while conditions

On 2015-07-31 23:12:25 +0000, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> I'd like to disable the effect of PRINT_EXIT_VALUE while evaluating
> if/while conditions, since it's uninformative (conditions sometimes
> fail, that's their sine qua non) and annoying (when doing a for/if
> interactively and the 'if' condition is false in many iterations, the
> option must be disabled to prevent stderr spamming).

It's also annoying in loops, e.g.

  for i in **/*.gz; zgrep foo $i

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