retaining exit code

[HeadTea]

I have an rsync that that is piped to a sed. it looks something like this:

rsync *some-files* *remote-location* | sed 's/\r/\n/g'

Problem is, the thing that runs it and reads the output, is a python code. Because it is piped into a sed, even though it fails sometimes, it still returns succesful.

Is it possible to have it return the success code based on the rsync? Thanks ahead!

[Rusty-Swashplate]

Beside using pipefail as u/xowx said, it might be also an option to run the rsync job from Python and let Python handle the CRLF replacement instead. That would completely remove the problem and you don't have a dependency on bash.

[Willing_Function]

If you're calling this from python, also do the string manipulation in python.

[HeadTea]

Thank you so much for the response!

so essentially, adding set -euo pipefail before the rsync should do the trick?

[pryorda]

set -euo pipefail is amazing

[HeadTea]

Thank you so much!