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I have a script which compile a program. This program first compiles the source code using configure && make commands, then runs some tests using make test. This script also uses set -e to catch errors.

Now, what I want to do is keep set -e set in the script and still continue running the script when make test encounters some errors. I have tried using make -k test to make the tests run even when it encounters errors, but it is caught by the set -e command and it is stopped.

I also know which tests are going to fail, so is there any way to tell the script to skip catching these errors.

I need help regarding these two questions urgently as I have very little knowledge in shell scripting.

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up vote 5 down vote accepted 
make test || true

e.g.

#!/bin/sh
set -e
echo hello
make test || true
echo done

Will result in

hello
make: *** No rule to make target `test'.  Stop.
done

In this case the failure was a missing rule (no Makefile :-)) but we can see the script continues.

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set -e can be flipped with set +e.

#!/bin/sh
set -e
configure && make
set +e
make test
...
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Isn't there any other way to do it? As in more robust way? – Abhimanyu Saharan Jun 22 '16 at 18:00

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