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

[Ed Morton]

On 9/9/2021 4:13 PM, Neil R. Ormos wrote:
> the notion
> that we somehow don't know what "if the close was
> successful" means is a fiction.
We'll have to agree to disagree. If someone told me to write a function 
foo() to release some resource X and return success if foo() succeeded 
my first question would be "what should it return if X is already idle".

    Ed.