From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9497 invoked from network); 16 Aug 2004 12:44:16 -0000 Received: from news.dotsrc.org (HELO a.mx.sunsite.dk) (130.225.247.88) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 16 Aug 2004 12:44:16 -0000 Received: (qmail 38885 invoked from network); 16 Aug 2004 12:44:11 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.247.90) by a.mx.sunsite.dk with SMTP; 16 Aug 2004 12:44:11 -0000 Received: (qmail 13212 invoked by alias); 16 Aug 2004 12:43:26 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 7864 Received: (qmail 13202 invoked from network); 16 Aug 2004 12:43:26 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO a.mx.sunsite.dk) (130.225.247.88) by 130.225.247.90 with SMTP; 16 Aug 2004 12:43:26 -0000 Received: (qmail 35250 invoked from network); 16 Aug 2004 12:41:28 -0000 Received: from sccimhc92.asp.att.net (63.240.76.166) by a.mx.sunsite.dk with SMTP; 16 Aug 2004 12:41:26 -0000 Received: from louisville.edu (12-220-223-80.client.insightbb.com[12.220.223.80]) by sccimhc92.asp.att.net (sccimhc92) with SMTP id <20040816124125i920091g0ge>; Mon, 16 Aug 2004 12:41:25 +0000 Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 08:41:24 -0400 Subject: Re: Slightly OT: Error-Handling in a Pipeline, preferably non-zsh Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v553) From: Aaron Davies To: zsh-users@sunsite.dk Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: Message-Id: <95305BF6-EF81-11D8-83BE-000502631FBD@louisville.edu> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.553) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 on a.mx.sunsite.dk X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=1.0 required=6.0 tests=BAYES_01,FROM_ENDS_IN_NUMS, RCVD_IN_SORBS autolearn=no version=2.63 X-Spam-Hits: 1.0 On Monday, August 16, 2004, at 03:51 AM, Bart Schaefer wrote: > On Sun, 15 Aug 2004, Aaron Davies wrote: > >> On Sunday, August 15, 2004, at 11:03 PM, Philippe Troin wrote: >> >>> Use your first idiom and check $pipestatus[4]. >> >> Thanks, that seems to solve it (though it's [3], not [4]). > > If you have the KSH_ARRAYS option set, it's best to say so when asking > for > help on this list, or you're going to see a lot of this kind of > "mistake." I'm running this under Bourne sh, as I mentioned in my original request. (Well, technically, I think on this box it's bash, running in sh emulation mode.) I assume this is the default array indexing mode for sh? -- __ __ / ) / ) /--/ __. .__ ______ / / __. , __o _ _ / (_(_/|_/ (_(_) / (_ (__/_(_/|_\/ <__