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Use `-o pipefail`

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
20/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
bash, shell
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Inspect the repository's shell scripts and their shebangs, then reproduce the behavior on the ubuntu-24.04 GitHub Actions runner. Determine which scripts run in sh compatibility mode and whether the requested option is currently supported; done means the intended pipefail behavior is applied consistently without causing the runner failure.

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Description

All scripts should specify -o pipefail.

Problem right now: bash (at least on ubunut-24.04 gha runner), when is run in sh compat mode (i.e. sees the sh shebang), gets angry and quits whenever it sees -o pipefail.

Maybe in the future it gets resoved. Then I'll add -o pipefail back.

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