retval of pipelined cmd in bash
Max Bowsher
maxb@ukf.net
Fri Dec 20 20:05:00 GMT 2002
Soren A <soren_andersen@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> Does anyone know how to do this -- how to pull out a return value
> from a command in the middle of a pipeline?
Bash has a builtin array variable PIPESTATUS.
There are also some horrible file descriptor manipulation recipes out there
for other shells, if you search.
Max.
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