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Re: best practices for checking system return values for piped commands?by billh (Pilgrim) |
| on May 02, 2006 at 12:39 UTC ( #546873=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
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Just to add a little to what others have said, 'true' is not the best possible choice for a 2nd command since: 1. it isn't reading it's stdin in so won't detect anything wrong. 2. 'true' tries its hardest to live up to its name, always exiting with status zero.
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