Negated commands exiting with incorrect exit code

[amancevice]

Description

Given the following Taskfile:

---
version: 3
tasks:
  example:
    status:
      - "! which badcommand"
    cmds:
      - echo running task

I would expect the example task to NOT run, given that ! which badcommand will surely exit 0. However, Task is reporting that the status command is exiting non-zero and executes the task:

$ task example -v
task: "example" started
task: status command ! which badcommand exited non-zero: exit status 1
task: [example] echo runnning task
runnning task
task: "example" finished

The workaround is to use bash -c "! which badcommand" but I think this is suboptimal.

Version

3.46.4

Operating system

macos v26.2

Experiments Enabled

No response

Example Taskfile

---
version: 3
tasks:
  example:
    status:
      - "! which badcommand"
    cmds:
      - echo running task

[vmaerten]

Duplicate : #2446

[amancevice]

ah apologies, I searched a couple terms but didn't come across the dup

[vmaerten]

No problem :) We are also here for that