Re: [Help-bash] behavior of -o pipefail

[Christof Warlich]

Am 29.10.2018 um 20:58 schrieb Chet Ramey:
> On 10/29/18 3:54 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 08:49:32PM +0100, Christof Warlich wrote:
> > > With piplines being made up of such well-behaving filters, it would
> > > still be beneficial to see the first error instead of the last one. Can
> > > we agree with that?
> > If you care about that, just use the PIPESTATUS array variable instead of
> > pipefail.  Pipefail is only intended to report "something bad happened",
> > not to help you pinpoint exactly which bad thing happened to whom.  It's
> > a sledgehammer, not a sewing needle.
> You're not wrong. `set -o pipefail' is intended to fill the functionality
> gap caused by $? only using the exit status of the last element of the
> pipeline. If you want more, there are tools available.
Sure, PIPESTATUS always comes to rescue. I just hoped for making the 
sledgehammer to become a bit more versatile, but maybe you're right that 
it's not worth it.