Windows command interpreter: how to obtain exit code of first piped command

Question

In the example provided below, I execute nmake and then redirect STDOUT/STDERR to tee, which then sends it to the screen, and also to a log file. The problem is that I\'m tr

Answer 1

There is a version of "tee" (called mtee => https://ritchielawrence.github.io/mtee/) that optionally adopts the exit code of the piped process. With that you could write

nmake | mtee /E output.txt