ksh script, exit status and pipe

[Ian Wilson]

I want to execute a command, redirect stderr and tee stdout
e.g.
tar ... 2>foo.err | tee foo.log

however I also want to capture the exit status of the first command

tar ... 2>foo.err | tee foo.log
exitstatus = $?
simply gets the exit status of tee of course

tar ... || exitstatus=$? 2>foo.err | tee foo.log
always sets exitstatus to zero, looks like I need to establish some
precedence but brackets don't seem to help.

Is there an idiom for this?

Maybe I should hide the tar in a function?

Apologies if the above is a FAQ, I've RTFM where M = "Learning the Korn
Shell" and "Unix Power Tools", I'm none the wiser (though opening the
latter is always good for a half hour off-topic diversion).

[Stephane CHAZELAS]

2004-08-25, 11:00(+00), Ian Wilson:

> I want to execute a command, redirect stderr and tee stdout
> e.g.
> tar ... 2>foo.err | tee foo.log
>
> however I also want to capture the exit status of the first command

[...]

See question 13 of the comp.unix.shell FAQ:

[url]http://home.comcast.net/~j.p.h/cus-faq.html#M[/url]

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Stephane