MISPIPE(1)

💖 mispipe(1) 💖

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✨ NAME ✨

mispipe — pipes two commands together, then returns the exit status of the first one. Slay. 🫶

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

mispipe ["command1"] ["command2"]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so bestie, listen up. mispipe pipes two commands together just like the shell does. But unlike piping in the shell — which returns the exit status of the last command — mispipe returns the exit status of the first command. It's literally giving first-command main character energy, and I'm obsessed. 💅✨

Now, some shells, notably bash, do offer a pipefail option. But ngl, that option does not behave the same. Why? Because it makes a failure of any command in the pipeline get returned, not just the exit status of the first command. So it's a whole different vibe. 🙈💀

⭐ EXIT STATUS ⭐

The exit status of the first command. If the process terminated abnormally (due to a signal), 128 will be added to its exit status. So if it got yeeted by a signal, add 128 to the number. 😭👑

bestie, that's 128 added to its exit status. Keep that in mind, iykyk. 🔥

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Nathanael Nerode. iconic author moment, periodt. 💖

This page is from moreutils, dated 2006-09-07, and it's the MISPIPE(1) manual. Mwah 💋