On Monday, September 1, 2025, Maria <mariaca...@proton.me> wrote: > I don't understand why that behavior _should be_ > what happens.
I don't think that's set in stone. If at all possible, I would really like bash to at least not exit early, > similarly to ksh and zsh. > But I don't like how zsh handles it: echo: write error: broken pipe zsh: write error: broken pipe echo: write error: broken pipe zsh: write error: broken pipe echo: write error: broken pipe zsh: write error: broken pipe echo: write error: broken pipe zsh: write error: broken pipe echo: write error: broken pipe zsh: write error: broken pipe If a change is really necessary, bash should print "Broken pipe" and abort the outermost compound command. -- Oğuz
