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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