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Re: $PIPESTATUS is not updated by single external commands
From: |
Andreas Schwab |
Subject: |
Re: $PIPESTATUS is not updated by single external commands |
Date: |
Sun, 17 Mar 2002 23:14:16 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.090005 (Oort Gnus v0.05) Emacs/21.2.50 (ia64-suse-linux) |
prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes:
|> Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> wrote:
|> > prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes:
|> > |> bash-2.05a$ 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?
I did, and I could not reproduce it either.
Andreas.
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