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Does the Unix | (pipe) command have any options?
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An option, also referred to as a flag or a switch, is a single-letter or full word that modifies the behavior of a command in some predetermined way. A command is an instruction telling a computer to do something, usually to launch a program.
In the original Unix tradition, command-line options are single letters preceded by a single hyphen. Mode-flag options that do not take following arguments can be ganged together; thus, if -a and -b are mode options, -ab or -ba is also correct and enables both.
In short, no, but you can get the exit values of each of the commands in the pipe via $PIPESTATUS. You can change the behavior of it's return value via the shell option shopt -s pipefail and you can change how much is buffered from command to command via ulimit -p
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