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Re:Pipes and Filters by robertduncan on Tuesday September 16, 2014 @04:17PM (#8326847)
Error detection is much easier with pipefail:

http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Pipelines....

"If pipefail is enabled, the pipeline’s return status is the value of the last (rightmost) command to exit with a non-zero status, or zero if all commands exit successfully"

Re:Pipes and Filters by psobot on Tuesday September 16, 2014 @09:38PM (#8328040)
Pipefail is awesome - I had no idea this even existed. Thanks!