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0 pointsjoeyh14y ago0 comments

Configure your shell to report nonzero exit statuses.

  joey@gnu:~>true
  joey@gnu:~>false
  zsh: exit 1

In zsh this is done by "setopt print_exit_value". It's a pity shells don't do it by default.

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njharman14y ago

Good hint, but it's value is very niche. Waiting until exit for status is fail. Many commands take seconds if not minutes/hours to complete. I wanna see some indication that they are working and not hung/etc.

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0 pointsjoeyh14y ago0 comments

Configure your shell to report nonzero exit statuses.

  joey@gnu:~>true
  joey@gnu:~>false
  zsh: exit 1

In zsh this is done by "setopt print_exit_value". It's a pity shells don't do it by default.

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njharman14y ago

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