Hi,
I forgot to say thanks to all of you who responded. I think the manual page
needs improvement. This is just confusing.
Martin
Eric Blake wrote:
> On 12/27/2016 10:21 AM, Martin MOKREJŠ wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I wanted to enable error code reporting for piped processes. This
>> should be doable b
The syntax is
set -o pipefail
to turn the option on and
set +o pipefail
to turn the option off. The word on is not part of the syntax.
On 12/27/2016 10:21 AM, Martin MOKREJŠ wrote:
> Hi,
> I wanted to enable error code reporting for piped processes. This
> should be doable by "set -o pipeline on". The problem is it kills my $*
> array and defines $1="on".
That's because you used the wrong syntax.
'set -o pipefail' turns it on,
On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 05:21:13PM +0100, Martin MOKREJ?? wrote:
> Hi,
> I wanted to enable error code reporting for piped processes. This should
> be doable by "set -o pipeline on".
There is no such set -o keyword. I think you're looking for
"set -o pipefail" instead. (Note: there is no "o
