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Re: Execute a Command in PS1 w/o Disturbing Previous Return Value?

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From: Phil!Gregory <phil_g@xxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: Execute a Command in PS1 w/o Disturbing Previous Return Value?
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 11:17:24 -0400
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* Aaron Davies <agdavi01@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [2004-08-14 12:07 -0400]:
> I dunno, I can see where someone might want a prompt so complicated it 
> needed internal error-handling based on return value of executed 
> commands (cat foo || cat bar, etc.). Would "fixing" this prevent that?

Shouldn't.  IIRC, the code for precmd is as simple as saving $? at the
beginning and then restoring it at the end.

(I ran into this problem a while ago and solved it by simply moving all
execution into precmd().)

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References:
- Re: Execute a Command in PS1 w/o Disturbing Previous Return Value?
  - From: Bart Schaefer
- Re: Execute a Command in PS1 w/o Disturbing Previous Return Value?
  - From: Aaron Davies

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