Re: Shell job structure

[Peter Stephenson <p.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 25 Oct 2013 08:13:11 -0700
Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> You mean like this?
> 
> % true | false | true | (){ false | true | false; print $pipestatus }; print $pipestatus
> 1 0 1
> 0 1 0 0
> 
> Here's a loop construct:
> 
> % false | true | false | while true | false | true; do print $pipestatus; break; done; print $pipestatus
> 0 1 0
> 1 0 1 0

That's the sort of thing I'm worrying about.  As long as it can identify
succesfully which job it needs to worry about at any time, it should be
OK.

pws