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From: Tony Lainson <t.lainson@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 09:48:15 +1100
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Subject: Re: [9fans] p9p mk rc help
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> 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