Really old sh -- pipefail

Hal Murray halmurray at sonic.net
Thu Sep 10 03:40:49 UTC 2026


> dash immediately dies.

Thanks.

I don't think it actually dies.  I was testing from the command line and 
that continued to work.  I guess it's flushing the input or something like 
that.

```
$ set -o pipefail
dash: 1: set: Illegal option -o pipefail
$ set -o pipefail; date
dash: 2: set: Illegal option -o pipefail
$ echo "still working"
still working
$ 
```


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