Re: Special parameter ?

From	Enrique Soriano <esoriano@gsyc.urjc.es>
Newsgroups	gnu.bash.bug
Subject	Re: Special parameter ?
Date	2018-09-21 16:17 +0200
Message-ID	<mailman.1087.1537539467.1284.bug-bash@gnu.org> (permalink)
References	<201809211123.w8LBNvHe018414@omac.gsyc.urjc.es> <20180921125705.646znyglxhb6rqga@eeg.ccf.org>

Show all headers | View raw

> You're seeing the status from the creation of the background job (which is
> always 0), not from its completion.

Ah, I see.

Anyway, the behavior is not coherent with the manual page: in this
case, $? has the status from the creation of the background job,
that's not "the status of the most recently executed foreground
pipeline".

Regards

Back to gnu.bash.bug | Previous | Next | Find similar | Unroll thread

Thread

Re: Special parameter ? Enrique Soriano <esoriano@gsyc.urjc.es> - 2018-09-21 16:17 +0200

csiph-web