NAME

       mispipe - pipe two commands, returning the exit status of the first

SYNOPSIS

       mispipe ["command1"] ["command2"]

DESCRIPTION

       mispipe  pipes  two commands together like the shell does, but unlike piping in the shell,
       which returns the exit status of the last command; when using mispipe, the exit status  of
       the first command is returned.

       Note that some shells, notably bash, do offer a pipefail option, however, that option does
       not behave the same since it makes a failure of any command in the pipeline  be  returned,
       not just the exit status of the first.

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.

AUTHOR

       Nathanael Nerode

                                            2006-09-07                                 mispipe(1)