Re: Not to set PIPESTATUS unless necessary

[Chet Ramey]

On 5/8/24 9:57 PM, Peng Yu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> true | true
> false
> echo ${PIPESTATUS[@]}
>
> In the above commands, echo will print 1. But such information is also
> available in $?. Therefore, I think it is unnecessary to set
> PIPESTATUS after false. It is better to preserve its value until it is
> really necessary. Otherwise, users will have to preserve PIPESTATUS
> after running true | true. This will result in more code to write.

So your request is not to set PIPESTATUS after simple commands? I don't
think an option to do this would be useful.

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