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Created January 14, 2012 14:13
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Detecting failure in piped commands (bash)
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pipefail
# By default the failure is note detected:
set -o | grep pipefail
pipefail off
No manual entry for fear
echo $?
0
# Detecting the failure
set -o pipefail
man fear | tee
No manual entry for fear
echo $?
16
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