Yves Dorfsman <yves at zioup.com> writes: > Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des at des.no> writes: > > What returns exit code 141? > I suspect bash is returning the exit code from cat. What OS are you on? It is impossible for cat(1) on either Linux (GNU coreutils) or BSD to return anything other than 0 or 1. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des at des.no