[ILUG] shell pipeline error

[Padraig Brady]

Great stuff!
There was a nice tread on this already started by yourself:
http://www.linux.ie/pipermail/ilug/2000-October/024065.html

thanks,
Padraig.

Kenn Humborg wrote:

>>*bzzst*
>>Command 2 still run => command 3 still run.
>>The problem is I can't find a way to combine a pipe (|)
>>and logical and (&&). Alternatively is there a way
>>to get a pipeline to return the error code of the first
>>command and not the last. Even better would be for
>>a pipeline to return the error code if any command in
>>the pipeline returns "error".
>>
> 
> Bash2's PIPESTATUS[] array variable.  See bash2 manpage.
> Not easy with bash1, unfortunately.
> 
> Later,
> Kenn