[cs631apue] about an exit in the Pipeines

Jan Schaumann jschauma at stevens.edu
Fri Dec 5 20:40:17 EST 2014


jli51 <jli51 at stevens.edu> wrote:
> For the exit is to exit the current shell, so how about an exit in the  
> Pipeines, such as "ls | exit". When I check the Pipelines in bash, it's  
> saying Each command in a pipeline is executed as a separate process. so  
> is that means the exit will not terminate the shell when in the pipe?

What do you think the user would expect?

What do other shells do?

-Jan


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