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Re:Ask HN: How can I get better at bash? by oblio on Monday June 26, 2017 @05:39AM (#14635378)
Then you have the age old problem: what if one of the tasks in your pipeline(s) fails?
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Re:Ask HN: How can I get better at bash? by yorwba on Monday June 26, 2017 @06:07AM (#14635508) 

  set -o pipefail -o errexit
Add more options to taste.
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Re:Ask HN: How can I get better at bash? by Benjamin_Dobell on Monday June 26, 2017 @06:13AM (#14635549)
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29532904/bash-subshell-e...

Not pipefail as such, but Bash's error handling semantics (or lack there of) is pretty lame.

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