Roman Rakus wrote: > If this stays as it is, bash will never exit immediately if a command > (in this case pipeline) exits with a non-zero status.
That's clearly not true. Bash will not exit if a pipeline fails, but will do so if a simple command fails. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/