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From: Tony Lainson <t.lainson@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] p9p mk rc help
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 09:48:15 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGS0B8OeRgwYnR4m_WT_-Ak+5GqkeEtaoJMieUdP7UXcTqFQ7g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJUT6o616qwHvKtrRi2Rdx98r1kTAs5ejAk1tLktaoX10HLKrQ@mail.gmail.com>

> What is the correct way of detecting failure exit status of
> FOO_COMMAND (a networked operation) and ignoring exit status of
> BAR_COMMAND?

Perhaps something like this would work?

target:
    fn ignore { $* || status=() }
    foo | ignore bar

Tony



      parent reply	other threads:[~2013-11-20 22:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-20 11:13 dexen deVries
2013-11-20 14:11 ` erik quanstrom
2013-11-20 14:49   ` arnold
2013-11-20 15:58     ` erik quanstrom
2013-11-20 22:48 ` Tony Lainson [this message]

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