On Sunday 12 October 2003 18:38, Shlomi Fish wrote: > (make | echo) || echo hello > > make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
> I want that if one of the (first) components of the pipeline exits with an > error code, I'll know about it somehow. How? an erronouse exit code (actually, just "not true") does not break the pipe. how about (make || echo "oops" >&2 ) | cat-or-something -- Oded ::.. 'I have been told that "Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology" was required reading at the Xerox PARC lab where OOP was invented, but this may be merely an urban legend.' -- Bryce Wilcox ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]