Getting hold of error status from an external command?

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I found the following old thread discussing the same problem. Is this

proc = spawn(pipeline(ignorestatus(cmd)))

still the best way to get hold of the exit code?

I wish these commands (run() etc) had an option to return a proc object instead of throwing an exception.

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I do it like this:

julia> cmd = Cmd(`which`; ignorestatus=true)
`which`

julia> t = run(cmd)

?Invalid usage. Type 'WHICH -?' for help

julia> t.exitcode
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Thanks!!! That means that I haven’t found the right documentation or the documentation hasn’t been updated.

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See the documentation for Cmd.

Edit: yeah, I’m not seeing where the output of the run function is documented. That probably means that my solution is brittle.

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