Re: $PIPESTATUS is not updated by single external commands

[Paul Jarc]

Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> wrote:
> prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes:
> |> bash-2.05a$ PS1='$(echo "${PIPESTATUS[@]}") $ '
>
> Useless Use of Command Substitution:
>
> PS1='${PIPESTATUS[@]} $ '

If only it were.  With your PS1 setting, the problem disappears for me
as well.  So apparently the problem is somehow triggered by command
substitution.  The PS1 setting I normally use makes use of PIPESTATUS
and non-useless use of command substitution, so I can't avoid the
problem that easliy.

> I cannot reproduce that with the same version on ia64-suse-linux.

What if you use the command-substitution PS1 setting?


paul