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From:	"Max Bowsher" <maxb AT ukf DOT net>
To:	"Soren A" <soren_andersen AT fastmail DOT fm>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: retval of pipelined cmd in bash
Date:	Sat, 21 Dec 2002 00:30:57 -0000
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Soren A <soren_andersen AT fastmail DOT fm> wrote:

> Does anyone know how to do this -- how to pull out a return value
> from a command in the middle of a pipeline?

Bash has a builtin array variable PIPESTATUS.

There are also some horrible file descriptor manipulation recipes out there
for other shells, if you search.

Max.


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