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Pipe grep exit code away

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Mar 15, 20265014 views

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When I need to suppress some kind of output e.g. But foo gives sometimes only: grep will return -1. How do I transform the exit code 1 to 0?

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foo | grep -v bar

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You could always try piping it through something else, like , to get rid of the exit code from grep - though that may be a bigger hammer than you want.

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