Re: exit status issue

[Andreas Schwab]

"Steven W. Orr" <steveo@syslang.net> writes:

> I think we're beating this one to death, but I have point out that
> telling perl to run a print command whose output is redirected by bash
> is not the same as telling bash to run a builtin echo command that is
> redirected as an integral operation of the same interpreter.

They are really the same, but even if you change it bash still wins:

$ bash -c 'echo "hello"' >/dev/full
bash: line 0: echo: write error: No space left on device

Andreas.

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