OT: Linux shell validate-all-command-before-executing-anything behavior?

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Nick Sabalausky" <a at a.a> wrote in message 
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>> I'd check to make sure that running "make foo" works because I don't 
>> think that bash does the checking you seem to be seeing.
>>
>> Also ask the question here: http://serverfault.com/ or here 
>> http://superuser.com
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>> Both sites tend to give good and fast results.
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> Thanks. I'm going to write up a quick sanity-check test, and if that 
> doesn't help I'll try those places.
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>

Damnnit, that'll teach me not to shell-script when I haven't eaten anything. 
The problem was south of the keyboard.