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@@ -76,6 +76,18 @@ in the same shell process.
 This means that you can keep state across multiple commands.
 Note that all commands are executed
 regardless of the exit status of previous commands.
+.Pp
+.Nm
+exits with a positive status if a command failed.
+Note that it checks the status
+of the entire command sent to the shell,
+not the individual command lines.
+To emulate the behavior of
+.Xr make 1 ,
+which fails if any individual command line fails,
+you can use
+.Ql set -e
+in your command line.
 .
 .Sh EXAMPLES
 .Pp