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Re: broken pipe message with setopt PRINT_EXIT_VALUE



Bart Schaefer wrote on Fri, May 28, 2021 at 14:26:25 -0700:
> You can run the pipeline in a subshell to suppress this behavior:
> 
> ( < /dev/urandom tr -dc _A-Z-a-z-0-9 | head -c 32; echo )
> 
> PRINT_EXIT_VALUE is disabled in subshells because subshells do not
> normally maintain a jobs table like an interactive shell does.

That's the reason in implementation terms, but what's the reason in
user-facing terms?




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