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From: drazen@VLSI.CALTECH.EDU (Drazen Borkovic)
Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug
Subject: return values of the function and pipe
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Date: 11 Jul 89 16:27:22 GMT
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There are 2 problems:
1. Return  from a function doesn't work correctly. 
   Value  returned from the function is not correct.
2. Value returned by the pipe is not correct.

This was bash version 1.02.
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Script started on Tue Jul 11 09:17:54 1989
> type pushd
pushd is a function
pushd () {
local st ; builtin pushd $1 ; st=$? ; stripe ; return $st 
}
> pushd JUNK.DIR ; echo $?
JUNK.DIR: No such file or directory
can only `return' from a function
> pushd JUNK.DIR 
JUNK.DIR: No such file or directory
can only `return' from a function
> echo $?
0
> pushd c ; echo $?
~/c ~ 
can only `return' from a function
> 
> 
> cd ..
> grep JUNK Maxa ; echo $?
1
> cat Maxa | grep JUNK ; echo $?
0
> 
> 
> exit

script done on Tue Jul 11 09:19:20 1989
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Drazen Borkovic
CS dept, Caltech 256-80, Pasadena CA 91125
drazen@vlsi.caltech.edu