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Re: issues in bash found while creating command result display


From: Chet Ramey
Subject: Re: issues in bash found while creating command result display
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2019 09:53:57 -0400
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On 4/15/19 10:29 PM, Paul Wise wrote:

> I wonder if bash could set an additional variable to indicate if $? is
> from a normal exit, a signal exit, a shell keystroke etc, as well as a
> corresponding equivalent array that is about PIPESTATUS.

That falls apart fairly quickly for anything but the common case.

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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU    chet@case.edu    http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/

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