Hello,
how could I (in a reliable, portable way) retrieve the exit code of
the program "urldecode" in the following code fragment:
var=$(echo "$url" | urldecode)
Tests show that the result of the assignment is the result of the
pipeline started for command substition (here: the exit code of
"urldecode"). But is this something to depend upon, or is it
an implementation detail?
Alternatively the result of "var=$(cmdsubst)" could be the result
of the assignment, e.g. an error if the command substitution fails
(e.g. "out of processes").
Maybe the exit code is a combination: "0" if everything works
without error, different from zero if *anything* goes wrong, either
in the command substitution, during the assignment?
Heiner
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