Re: PIPESTATUS differs from $? for compound command

[Chet Ramey]

On 12/12/24 2:01 AM, Mike Jonkmans wrote:

> Moreover, bash accepts e.g.:
>         ! ! false
> How can you parse that, without a pipeline being a command?
> Note that this is not posix, though bash accepts it even with --posix.

I implemented it that way because the original proposal

https://www.austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=267

allows it, and that's what I implemented. By the time it made it into a
published standard (from 2010, when it was introduced, to 2022, when it
was approved), the grammar in the proposal changed.

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