Re: no exit status available when a command doesn't exist or fails in pipe to grep

[Neil R. Ormos]

Ed Morton wrote:
> Neil R. Ormos wrote:
>> ED MORTON wrote:

>>> I was just trying to write a function that would
>>> do the same for awk that command substitution
>>> [...] run some command [...]
>>> but I need to know the exit status if the
>>> pipeline failed [...]

>> Use the value returned by close().

> I know this is a gawk mailing list but I don't
> suppose you know of a POSIX equivalent?

I do not.