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0 pointsmprovost11mo ago0 comments

In other shells, the status of the pipeline is the exit status of the last process, so in this case that would be head which exits with 0.

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aidenn011mo ago· 1 in thread

Not in e.g. bash with "pipefail" set. However the pipefail option in bash will choke on my previous example, hence treating a SIGPIPE the same as success in ysh.

mprovostOP11mo ago

Yes well, the pipefail option configures bash to do the opposite of its usual behaviour.

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