13. How do I get the exit code of cmd1 in cmd1|cmd2
First, note that cmd1 exit code could be non-zero and still don't
mean an error. This happens for instance in
cmd | head -1
you might observe a 141 (or 269 with ksh93) exit status of cmd1,
but it's because cmd was interrupted by a SIGPIPE signal when
"head -1" terminated after having read one line.
To know the exit status of the elements of a pipeline
cmd1 | cmd2 | cmd3
a. with zsh:
The exit codes are provided in the pipestatus special array.
cmd1 exit code is in $pipestatus[1], cmd3 exit code in
$pipestatus[3], so that $? is always the same as
$pipestatus[-1].
b. with bash:
The exit codes are provided in the PIPESTATUS special array.
cmd1 exit code is in ${PIPESTATUS[0]}, cmd3 exit code in
${PIPESTATUS[2]}, so that $? is always the same as
${PIPESTATUS: -1}.
c. with any other Bourne like shells
You need to use a trick to pass the exit codes to the main
shell. You can do it using a pipe(2). Instead of running
"cmd1", you run "cmd1; echo $?" and make sure $? makes it way
to the shell.
exec 3>&1
eval `
# now, inside the `...`, fd4 goes to the pipe
# whose other end is read and passed to eval;
# fd1 is the normal standard output preserved
# the line before with exec 3>&1
exec 4>&1 >&3 3>&-
{
cmd1 4>&-; echo "ec1=$?;" >&4
} | {
cmd2 4>&-; echo "ec2=$?;" >&4
} | cmd3
echo "ec3=$?;" >&4
`
d. with a POSIX shell
You can use this function to make it easier:
run() {
j=1
while eval "\${pipestatus_$j+:} false"; do
unset pipestatus_$j
j=$(($j+1))
done
j=1 com= k=1 l=
for a; do
if [ "x$a" = 'x|' ]; then
com="$com { $l "'3>&-
echo "pipestatus_'$j'=$?" >&3
} 4>&- |'
j=$(($j+1)) l=
else
l="$l \"\$$k\""
fi
k=$(($k+1))
done
com="$com $l"' 3>&- >&4 4>&-
echo "pipestatus_'$j'=$?"'
exec 4>&1
eval "$(exec 3>&1; eval "$com")"
exec 4>&-
j=1
while eval "\${pipestatus_$j+:} false"; do
eval "[ \$pipestatus_$j -eq 0 ]" || return 1
j=$(($j+1))
done
return 0
}
use it as:
run cmd1 \| cmd2 \| cmd3
exit codes are in $pipestatus_1, $pipestatus_2, $pipestatus_3
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eval
exec(1) User Commands exec(1)NAME
exec, eval, source - shell built-in functions to execute other commands
SYNOPSIS
sh
exec [argument...]
eval [argument...]
csh
exec command
eval argument...
source [-h] name
ksh
*exec [arg...]
*eval [arg...]
DESCRIPTION
sh
The exec command specified by the arguments is executed in place of this shell without creating a new process. Input/output arguments may
appear and, if no other arguments are given, cause the shell input/output to be modified.
The arguments to the eval built-in are read as input to the shell and the resulting command(s) executed.
csh
exec executes command in place of the current shell, which terminates.
eval reads its arguments as input to the shell and executes the resulting command(s). This is usually used to execute commands generated as
the result of command or variable substitution.
source reads commands from name. source commands may be nested, but if they are nested too deeply the shell may run out of file descrip-
tors. An error in a sourced file at any level terminates all nested source commands.
-h Place commands from the file name on the history list without executing them.
ksh
With the exec built-in, if arg is given, the command specified by the arguments is executed in place of this shell without creating a new
process. Input/output arguments may appear and affect the current process. If no arguments are given the effect of this command is to mod-
ify file descriptors as prescribed by the input/output redirection list. In this case, any file descriptor numbers greater than 2 that are
opened with this mechanism are closed when invoking another program.
The arguments to eval are read as input to the shell and the resulting command(s) executed.
On this man page, ksh(1) commands that are preceded by one or two * (asterisks) are treated specially in the following ways:
1. Variable assignment lists preceding the command remain in effect when the command completes.
2. I/O redirections are processed after variable assignments.
3. Errors cause a script that contains them to abort.
4. Words, following a command preceded by ** that are in the format of a variable assignment, are expanded with the same rules as a vari-
able assignment. This means that tilde substitution is performed after the = sign and word splitting and file name generation are not
performed.
EXIT STATUS
For ksh:
If command is not found, the exit status is 127. If command is found, but is not an executable utility, the exit status is 126. If a redi-
rection error occurs, the shell exits with a value in the range 1-125. Otherwise, exec returns a zero exit status.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO csh(1), ksh(1), sh(1), attributes(5)SunOS 5.10 17 Jul 2002 exec(1)