How do I get the error level of commands in a pipe in Windows batch programming?

Question

Batch files return the error code of the last command by default.

Is it somehow possible to return the error code of a former command. Most notably, is it possible t

Answer 1

One workaround is to make an indirection through a file.

Like this

foo.exe > tmp.txt
set FOOERR=%ERRORLEVEL%
cat tmp.txt
exit %FOOERR%