On Fri, 2013-06-28 at 11:10 +0200, Simon Matter wrote: > > If those commands are not executed in a subshell, shouldn't the > failure then be seen in the rpm build log (which is why I proposed to > not run the subshell)? Honestly, I don't know; let the OP to find this out. It doesn't really matter though, one can just as well cat "" >> into a temporary file from inside the subshell... -- Sincerely yours, Yury V. Zaytsev