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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 09:11:05 -0500
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Subject: Re: [9fans] p9p mk rc help
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> target: prereq
>     FOO_COMMAND | BAR_COMMAND
>     st = $status
>     if (~ $st ?* ^ '|' ^ *) {
>         echo FOO_COMMAND failed
>         exit 3 }

i think there a bug in this.  a trailing ~ 1 1
or similar is necessary to clear the status from the if.

alternately, how about replacing the if with simply

	! ~ $st ?* ^ '|' ^ *

which should correctly set the status.

- erik