On 9/1/26 7:49 PM, Robert Elz wrote:
     Date:        Tue, 1 Sep 2026 10:03:34 -0400
     From:        Chet Ramey <[email protected]>
     Message-ID:  <[email protected]>

   | https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=267
   | "The format for a false pipeline is:

While that was originally in what was proposed, none of it seems to have
ever made into Issue 8 (the 2024 standard), despite it having been claimed
to have been applied in 2022.   Why it all vanished again I have no idea,
so while it explains why bash is as it is, none of it is relevant for
anything more than that.

True, but the bash behavior what we're discussing here.

I also cannot see any utility at all in (yet another way) to specify false.

Once you say a pipeline consists of zero or more commands separated by `|'
and optionally preceded by `!', you have to specify the corner cases with
zero commands.

Chet

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