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[Amos Shapira]

If you just want to know if any of the commands failed, you can also set
"pipefail", which will set $? to the exit status of the rightmost pipeline
command to exit none-zero.


On 20 June 2013 23:08, Erez D <erez0001 at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 4:01 PM, Erez D <erez0001 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> how can i pipe one command to another and get the return value from the
>> first
>>
>> e.g.
>> make | tee log ; x=$?
>>
>> x holds the return value of 'tee'
>> however i want the return value of 'make'
>>
>>
>> any idea ?
>>
>>
>> i should have searched better ...
>
> i found it using $PIPESTATUS[0] ...
>
>
> cheers,
> erez.
>
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