...Limitation?

[mwoehlke]

Not really a bug, but this seems to be the only bash list gname knows 
about, so...

I am trying to figure out how to run a command and pipe the output 
through tee, and then check the status of the original command. Normally 
I am a very competent shell programmer, but this one has me stumped!

I have tried all of the following with no success (except of course the 
last one):

my_false() { false || ret=3; }

ret=0
{ false || exit 1; } | tee none
{ false || ret=2; } | tee none ; [ $ret -eq 0 ] || exit $ret
my_false | tee none ; [ $ret -eq 0 ] || exit $ret
false | tee none || exit 4
false || exit 5

Please, someone tell me I'm just doing it wrong, and this is not a 
limititation in bash!

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Matthew
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