Re: [Help-bash] catching read error conditions

[Chet Ramey]

On 1/28/13 8:32 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote:

> Well, any of the ways of testing the exit status should suffice.
> Also note that you can't distinguish a failure-due-to-timeout from
> other kinds of failures.

Not quite true.  The manual says:

"The exit status is greater than 128 if the timeout is exceeded."

That does narrow the error space.

Chet

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