I have a short script like this:
#!/bin/bash
<some_process> | tee -a /tmp/some.log &
wait $(pidof <some_process_name>)
echo $?
The result is always 0, irrespective of the exit status of some_process.
I know PIPESTATUS can be used here, but why does tee break wait?
Well, this is something that, for some peculiar reason, the docs don't mention. The code, however, does:
int wait_for (pid) { /*...*/
/* If this child is part of a job, then we are really waiting for the
job to finish. Otherwise, we are waiting for the child to finish. [...] */
if (job == NO_JOB)
job = find_job (pid, 0, NULL);
So it's actually waiting for the whole job, which, as we know, normally yields the exit status of the last command in the chain.
To make matters worse, $PIPESTATUS can only be used with the last foreground command.
You can, however, utilize $PIPESTATUS in a subshell job, like this:
(<some_process> | tee -a /tmp/some.log; exit ${PIPESTATUS[0]}) &
# somewhere down the line:
wait %%<some_process>
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