Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@case.edu> writes: > On 12/11/24 9:54 PM, Dale R. Worley wrote: >> This needs to be corrected to note that compound commands that are not >> one component of a multi-command pipeline do not cound as pipelines for >> setting PIPESTATUS. Exactly which compounds commands don't set >> PIPESTATUS needs to be made clear as it's not at all obvious. > > I'll add something enumerating the commands that set PIPESTATUS.
Well, given that the documentation as written is that a solo compound command is a pipeline and by implication sets PIPESTATUS, the edit is actually "enumerating the commands that *don't* set PIPESTATUS if they are the only command in a pipeline". Dale
