Re: $? in the right side of a pipe

[dnade.ext]

        Hello

More information on that topic : 

false ; false | echo $? stills prints 0.
false ; (false) | echo $? prints 1

So.. ? $? in the right side of a pipe is randomly the exit status of the left 
side depending of the way you write it ? Doesn’t sound sane.

Doesn’t that break POSIX anyway ?

I think it should be fixed.

        D

On Mon, 06 Sep 2010 19:47:20 -0400, Chet Ramey wrote : 
> On 9/5/10 5:36 AM, Pierre Gaston wrote:
> > using the following:
> > 
> > false; : | echo $?
> > 
> > bash and ksh93 print 0
> > pdksh, dash and zsh print 1
>
> It looks like bash and ksh93 wait for each command in a pipeline to finish
> and allow the intermediate commands to set $?, which, depending on timing,
> can be seen by subsequent commands in the pipeline.  The other shells must
> do something different.
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