When developing shell scripts, it is common usage to check the exit code of a command in order to check if its execution was successful or not. It is pretty easy when you execute only one command, because the exit code can be find using the special parameter “$?”. But if you use pipelines (“command1 | command2 | …”), it is not that simple because “$?” will only give you the exit code of the last command of your pipeline.

So, today, I’m going to show you how to get the exit code for each command in a pipeline. Unfortunately, this only works in bash.

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