Nasty little shell syntax problem for a Wizard

[Jan Newmarch]

>Conceptually what I want is something like:
>gcc <parms> 2>&1 | egrep -v "<re>" || (abort_script;exit 1)
>Except that I want the || to use the condition code from the gcc (NOT the egrep)
>AND I want the condition code of the whole expression to be OK if the compile
>is OK or ERROR if the compile has an error.

The shell variable `?' holds the exit code of the last instruction executed,
so you could run your gcc, save the exit code, run egrep and the exit:

	gcc > ...
  	code=$?
	egrep ...
	exit $code

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