On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 10:10:01PM +0000, dmandelb%bbn.com@localhost wrote: > # true; true & echo $? > 0 > # false; true & echo $? > 1 This does not seem to occur with '-c': $ /bin/sh -c "true; true & echo $?" 0 $ /bin/sh -c "false; true & echo $?" 0