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Built-in Core Utilities fails catastrophic with no way to catch the error #2699
Description
Description
Testing out the new Built-in Core Utilities I ran into an issue.
When executing statement like cat doesnotexist || echo "test" on linux, it will correctly catch the cat command's error state and execute the next command: echo "test".
cat: can't open 'doesnotexist': No such file or directory
testWhen using the built-in utilities, it will fatally exit out of the statement
task: [example] cat doesnotexist || echo "non-catastrophic"
task: Failed to run task "example": coreutils: open [....]/doesnotexist: The system cannot find the file specified. It exits out of the statement in such a way that not even ignore_error can handle it correctly.
The example Taskfile output on Windows:
Note that ignore_error did not work and the || statement did not execute.
task: [example] false
task: [example] false || echo "non-catastrophic"
non-catastrophic
task: [example] base64 doesnotexist || echo "non-catastrophic"
task: Failed to run task "example": coreutils: open C:\[....]\doesnotexist: The system cannot find the file specified.The example Taskfile on Linux:
Note all statement act normally
task: [example] false
task: [example] false || echo "non-catastrophic"
non-catastrophic
task: [example] base64 doesnotexist || echo "non-catastrophic"
base64: doesnotexist: No such file or directory
non-catastrophic
task: [example] cat doesnotexist || echo "non-catastrophic"
cat: can't open 'doesnotexist': No such file or directory
non-catastrophicUsing TASK_CORE_UTILS=1 go-task example on linux
Note that ignore_error did not work and the || statement did not execute when using the built-in utilities.
task: [example] false
task: [example] false || echo "non-catastrophic"
non-catastrophic
task: [example] base64 doesnotexist || echo "non-catastrophic"
task: Failed to run task "example": open /[....]/doesnotexist: no such file or directoryVersion
3.48.0-windows, 3.45.5-alpine
Operating system
Windows, Linux (alpine)
Experiments Enabled
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Example Taskfile
version: '3'
tasks:
example:
desc: "Catastrophic failure of built-in utils"
cmds:
- cmd: 'false'
ignore_error: true
- cmd: 'false || echo "non-catastrophic"'
- cmd: 'base64 doesnotexist || echo "non-catastrophic"'
ignore_error: true
- cmd: 'cat doesnotexist || echo "non-catastrophic"'
Activity
trulede commentedon Feb 20, 2026
This is a duplicate, or related to, #2466. You might like to try the related PR (and offer feedback there) however I think the problem will be fixed with a more refined integration to coreutils.
ignore_errornot working on new built-incpcommand #2466WesselAtWork commentedon Feb 23, 2026
My apologies, my key word search did not find that issue, I'll search harder next time.
It looks like it'll be fixed in a new release, I'll test it then and open a new issue if it still can't run
||statements.