Re: pipefail option doesn't work as advertised

[Tim Waugh]

On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 02:32:52PM +0100, ben@ncipher.com wrote:

> When using the pipefail option, the following command:
>   echo foo | false
> produces an exit status of 0, ignoring the exit status of false.

It works for me.  Do you have PROMPT_COMMAND set?  If so that will
mess up the exit status.

[tim@cyberelk ~]$ unset PROMPT_COMMAND
[tim@cyberelk ~]$ echo foo | false
[tim@cyberelk ~]$ echo $?
1
[tim@cyberelk ~]$
GNU bash, version 3.00.0(1)-release (i386-redhat-linux-gnu)

Tim.
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