Wladimir Sidorenko <wlsidore...@gmail.com> writes: > To my mind the '!' operator should have had a higher precedence during > parsing command line arguments than the pipe and applied only to the > command it was immediately preceding. So that in > > ! command1 | command2 | command3 > > it would only negate command1.
Which doesn't make sense, since the exit code of command1 has no significance. The exit code of a pipeline is that of the last command. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."
