cygwin bash include scripting and error code return question

[Linda Walsh]

John Fairhall wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have a cygwin bash script running on 32 bit XP.
> 
> I have a windows BAT script calling bash, like so:
> 
> -------------------
> bash mainScript.sh 2>&1 | tee %LOGFILE%
> bash mailBuild.sh %ERRORLEVEL% %LOGFILE%
> -------------------
> 
> 
> What I was hoping was that bash would propagate the shell script's return code to the external OS, but as far as I can see the windows ERRORLEVEL is always 0.
> 
> Is there a way to make bash do this?

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	Question -- is %ERRORLEVEL% returning the value of bash or the value of 'tee'? 
   I am guessing it returns the value of 'tee'.

If you want to do what you are doing...um...

   bash -o pipefail -c "mainScript.sh  >| tee %LOGFILE%"



should do it...

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