[Gllug] bash: return status of a command in a pipe?

[Benedikt Heinen]

Normally, I'd assume there just has to be a way for this, but - at the 
moment, I'm a bit lost...

How do you get the return value of a command within a pipe?

i.e.  If I run:

 	make 2>&1 | tee make.out

As expected, $? always returns 0 - the result of 'tee'; independently of 
whether make itself terminated successfully or encountered a problem.




Benedikt

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