How to get the return value of pipe and executable on Windows

Question

I am running some unit tests which involve piping into my executable, like this.

cat text.txt | my_exe --options

Running these commands, how do I get the return value of my_exe? Even when my_exe returns failure, the return value is discarded. I assume the return value of cat is prioritized instead.

Asked another way, how do I execute the above pipe command to give the same return value as :

cat text.txt && my_exe --options

ty!

edit : Using the traditional cmd.

Answer 1

cmd DOES set the exit status for a pipeline to the rightmost component and the (or any) other component is NOT 'prioritized' or even considered. Observe:

c:\temp>echo exit 42 | cmd >NUL

c:\temp>echo %errorlevel%
42


c:\temp>cmd/c echo exit 42 | cmd >NUL

c:\temp>echo %errorlevel%
42


c:\temp>cmd/c "echo exit 42 && exit 17" | cmd >NUL

c:\temp>echo %errorlevel%
42


c:\temp>cmd/c exit 17 | cmd/c exit 0

c:\temp>echo %errorlevel%
0


c:\temp>cmd/c exit 11 | cmd/c exit 22 | cmd/c exit 33

c:\temp>echo %errorlevel%
33


c:\temp>cmd/c exit 11 | cmd/c exit 22 | cmd/c echo GOOD
GOOD

c:\temp>echo %errorlevel%
0

If you're getting a different result you must be doing something different than you show in your Q, but since we have no clue what that is, it's impossible to make any useful suggestions.