Re: Slightly OT: Error-Handling in a Pipeline, preferably non-zsh

[Aaron Davies <agdavi01@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday, August 15, 2004, at 10:42 PM, Bart Schaefer wrote:

> On Sun, 15 Aug 2004, Aaron Davies wrote:
>
> > How do I do return-value error handling in the middle of a pipeline?
>
> Or you could skip the awk and xargs entirely and use a while loop:
>
>   ps aux | grep $name | grep -v grep | grep -v $0 |
>   while read user pid remainder
>   do
>     $@ $pid
>   done

What do you think of the solution I replied to Phillipe with, using 
xargs with "-r" and just checking the pipestatus to determine exit?

> As a final note, you probably want "$@" in double quotes.

Really? I used it with multi-word commands (like "kill -9") with no 
problems.
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