> I assume that if an error happened in a pipe set -e; would catch it. > But I did not check that - I normally just adds set -e; without much thought.
No, you need set -o pipefail for that (which is a bashism). Thanks, Roland - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/