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A classical example of piping:

$ false | true
$ echo ${PIPESTATUS[@]}
1 0

Same example run in a subshell and assigning results into a variable:

$ process="$(false | true)"
$ echo ${PIPESTATUS[@]}
0

How could I get the exit status of each of the piped processes?

Similar question, without the subshell part:

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  • process="$(false | true ; echo ${PIPESTATUS[@]} >&2)" or process="$(false | true ; echo ${PIPESTATUS[@]} >/dev/tty)" – jesse_b Nov 16 '19 at 16:55
  • well, you do the echo ${PIPESTATUS} inside the command substitution subshell ;-) I guess your question is more about how to capture output other than stdout from a command substitution. –  Nov 16 '19 at 16:56
  • ... which is "interesting", since there are no nice solutions, only ugly kludges. For instance, this will use a tempfile to get the data out, while leaving stdout and stderr undisturbed: t=$(mktemp); exec 3>$t 4<$t; rm "$t"; out=$(false | true | false | echo hmm; echo -n "${PIPESTATUS[@]}" >&3); readarray -td' ' st <&4; exec 3>&- 4<&-; echo "out=$out; st=(${st[*]})". Related: Redirect STDERR and STDOUT to different variables without temporary files –  Nov 16 '19 at 17:22
  • btw, you got you quoting backwards: you should quote the ${PIPESTATUS[@]} in echo "${PIPESTATUS[@]}", but you don't have to quote the $(...) in process=$(false | true). –  Nov 16 '19 at 17:26

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