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Re: $PIPESTATUS is not updated by single external commands
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Paul Jarc |
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Re: $PIPESTATUS is not updated by single external commands |
Date: |
Sun, 17 Mar 2002 15:57:16 -0500 |
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Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> wrote:
> prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes:
> |> bash-2.05a$ PS1='$(echo "${PIPESTATUS[@]}") $ '
>
> Useless Use of Command Substitution:
>
> PS1='${PIPESTATUS[@]} $ '
If only it were. With your PS1 setting, the problem disappears for me
as well. So apparently the problem is somehow triggered by command
substitution. The PS1 setting I normally use makes use of PIPESTATUS
and non-useless use of command substitution, so I can't avoid the
problem that easliy.
> I cannot reproduce that with the same version on ia64-suse-linux.
What if you use the command-substitution PS1 setting?
paul