This will allow problems with piped commands to be detected.
This will also allow tasks to be retried where errors are rare (such as network problems in piped commands).

Author: Scott Taylor <github@megatron.me.uk>

Closes #6262 from megatron-me-uk/patch-2 and squashes the following commits:

04ae1d5 [Scott Taylor] Remove spurious empty line
98fa101 [Scott Taylor] fix blank line style error
574b564 [Scott Taylor] Merge pull request #2 from megatron-me-uk/patch-4
0c1e762 [Scott Taylor] Update rdd pipe method for checkCode
ab9a2e1 [Scott Taylor] Update rdd pipe tests for checkCode
eb4801c [Scott Taylor] fix fail_condition
b0ac3a4 [Scott Taylor] Merge pull request #1 from megatron-me-uk/megatron-me-uk-patch-1
a307d13 [Scott Taylor] update rdd tests to test pipe modes
34fcdc3 [Scott Taylor] add optional argument 'mode' for rdd.pipe
a0c0161 [Scott Taylor] fix generator issue
8a9ef9c [Scott Taylor] make check_return_code an iterator
0486ae3 [Scott Taylor] style fixes
8ed89a6 [Scott Taylor] Chain generators to prevent potential deadlock
4153b02 [Scott Taylor] fix list.sort returns None
491d3fc [Scott Taylor] Pass a function handle to assertRaises
3344a21 [Scott Taylor] wrap assertRaises with QuietTest
3ab8c7a [Scott Taylor] remove whitespace for style
cc1a73d [Scott Taylor] fix style issues in pipe test
8db4073 [Scott Taylor] Add a test for rdd pipe functions
1b3dc4e [Scott Taylor] fix missing space around operator style
0974f98 [Scott Taylor] add space between words in multiline string
45f4977 [Scott Taylor] fix line too long style error
5745d85 [Scott Taylor] Remove space to fix style
f552d49 [Scott Taylor] Catch non-zero exit from pipe commands