bug#32751: split does not break on error from tar

[Alexander Fieroch]

As far as I can tell, this is not a bug, but the way pipelines work,
i.e. the  result of a pipeline (here the combination of tar and
split) is the result of the last command in the pipeline. If you
want the combination to fail if tar fails, you can use e.g.
set -o pipefail in bash or read PIPESTATUS. For other shells,
see e.g. http://cfajohnson.com/shell/cus-faq-2.html#Q11


Rainer

Thanks Rainer, that is a very good hint and is working for me!


Thanks!

Best regards,
Alexander

But why is this not a bug? In what case is it useful to ignore a non-zero exit code in a pipeline?

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