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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?
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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]'));

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