Re: Returning status to parent from pipe

If you're using the bash shell something like this might work:

if (fork()){

}
else
{
 exec 'com1 | com2; exit $PIPESTATUS[0]';
}
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You can read more about this in the bash manual.

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Re^2: Returning status to parent from pipe by morrin (Acolyte) on Aug 25, 2010 at 21:11 UTC
Thanks for the replies I had read about the PIPESTATUS variable in bash ..... for some reason I thought that a perl exec would always run in 'sh'. It does on my system. Apologies if this is a very basic question, but can I change that so that it does run in a bash shell?	[reply]
Re^3: Returning status to parent from pipe by ikegami (Patriarch) on Aug 25, 2010 at 23:01 UTC
On my system, /bin/sh runs bash. But you could specify which shell you want. `exec(bash => (-c => 'com1 \| com2; exit $PIPESTATUS[0]'));` [download]	[reply] [d/l]