Re: PIPESTATUS differs from $? for compound command

[Chet Ramey]

On 12/11/24 9:54 PM, Dale R. Worley wrote:

> This needs to be corrected to note that compound commands that are not
> one component of a multi-command pipeline do not cound as pipelines for
> setting PIPESTATUS.  Exactly which compounds commands don't set
> PIPESTATUS needs to be made clear as it's not at all obvious.

I'll add something enumerating the commands that set PIPESTATUS.

> "processes" should probably be changed to "commands" as that's what
> they're called in the documentation.

Probably.

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