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From: Steve Howe <un_x@anchorage.net>
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Subject: sh - lists, pipes & exits
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how can i return an exit value (to the invokers shell) of a command in a
list which gets piped into "more" ...

{ gcc 2>&1 see.c; xit=$?; if [ $xit ]; then exit $xit; fi; } | more
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
of course, "xit" ends up getting "wiped", and more is executed regardless.
i can't figure out how to do this without executing gcc 2x ...
such as follows ... 
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gcc 1>&- 2>&- see.c; xit=$?
if [ $xit != 0 ]; then blah; blah; exit $xit
else                   gcc 2>&1 see.c | more
fi