Hello, I'm currently using the ShellTask with a piped command and it seems like prefect is only checking the exit status of the last command, i.e. if I run

foo | bar

it will only check the exit status of

bar

any ideas on how to make prefect raise an error if either tasks fails?

Hey @Will Milner, I’ll definitely need to dive deeper on piped shell commands using the ShellTask. For the time being you can certainly use multiple ShellTasks to gain the monitorability of each command, but this isn’t ideal of course so I’ll need to get more information.

one possible solution I found was to use the

helper_script

with

set -o pipefail

That’s awesome! Not only a great solution, but I think something that can be a native configuration of the ShellTask so I’m going to pass this forward to the team.