Re: issues in bash found while creating command result display

[Paul Wise]

On Mon, 2019-04-15 at 17:31 -0400, Chet Ramey wrote:

> You can use $HISTCMD with a slight fix that's now in the devel branch.

That doesn't increment when you use HISTCONTROL=erasedups AFAICT but
the command number does increment. Also HISTCMD doesn't start at zero.

> The Korn shell uses values > 256 to denote `internal' shell exit statuses,
> but that violates POSIX.

I wonder if bash could set an additional variable to indicate if $? is
from a normal exit, a signal exit, a shell keystroke etc, as well as a
corresponding equivalent array that is about PIPESTATUS.

> I'll keep that in mind for a future version.

Thanks for that.

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