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Re: retval of pipelined cmd in bash
- From: "Max Bowsher" <maxb at ukf dot net>
- To: "Soren A" <soren_andersen at fastmail dot fm>,<cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 00:30:57 -0000
- Subject: Re: retval of pipelined cmd in bash
- References: <Xns92EAAAF9FCFDBsorenagmaneSH@80.91.224.249>
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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