Error codes in summary are reported as negative numbers
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Description
Error codes of executed commands are reported in summary with minus sign as shown bellow:
loop --for=0,1,2,3,4,5 --until-error 5 --summary -- exit '$ITEM'
returns
Total runs: 6
Successes: 1
Failures: 5 (-1, -2, -3, -4, -5)
I would expect to return
Total runs: 6
Successes: 1
Failures: 5 (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
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Reproduce the issue with the loop --for=0,1,2,3,4,5 --until-error 5 --summary -- exit '$ITEM' command, then trace the --summary handling and error-code formatting. Done means the summary reports failures as 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 rather than negative values.
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- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- cli
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
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- Stale
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