Re: different exit codes in $? and ${PIPESTATUS[@]}

[Wladimir Sidorenko]

Provided '-o pipefail' is not specified.

2012/10/14 Andreas Schwab <sch...@linux-m68k.org>:
> Wladimir Sidorenko <wlsidore...@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> To my mind the '!' operator should have had a higher precedence during
>> parsing command line arguments than the pipe and applied only to the
>> command it was immediately preceding. So that in
>>
>> ! command1 | command2 | command3
>>
>> it would only negate command1.
>
> Which doesn't make sense, since the exit code of command1 has no
> significance.  The exit code of a pipeline is that of the last command.
>
> Andreas.
>
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