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[PATCH] make the doc of pipefail clear



Hi, 

I think we can make the doc of pipefail more clear with this patch:



If set, pipe will return non-zero if any element return non-zero.
Otherwise, pipe will return zero.

Signed-off-by: Han Pingtian <hanpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 Doc/Zsh/options.yo | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Doc/Zsh/options.yo b/Doc/Zsh/options.yo
index 19920ca..cdfe46e 100644
--- a/Doc/Zsh/options.yo
+++ b/Doc/Zsh/options.yo
@@ -1743,8 +1743,8 @@ item(tt(PIPE_FAIL))(
 By default, when a pipeline exits the exit status recorded by the shell
 and returned by the shell variable tt($?) reflects that of the
 rightmost element of a pipeline.  If this option is set, the exit status
-instead reflects the status of the rightmost element of the pipeline
-that was non-zero, or zero if all elements exited with zero status.
+is non-zero if there was one element in the pipeline who exited with
+non-zero status, or zero if all elements exited with zero status.
 )
 pindex(SOURCE_TRACE)
 pindex(NO_SOURCE_TRACE)
-- 
1.9.3



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