How do you catch error codes in a shell pipe?

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In bash you can use set -e and set -o pipefail at the beginning of your file. A subsequent command ./a | ./b | ./c will fail when any of the three scripts fails. The return code will be the return code of the first failed script.

Note that pipefail isn’t available in standard sh.

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