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  • From the same question you have referred, you could try false > /dev/null and see that only ${PIPESTATUS[0]} has a value and ${PIPESTATUS[1]} is null which says the entire bar > /dev/null is a single command with no pipe involved. Commented Jan 7, 2015 at 1:57