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When I need to suppress some kind of output e.g.

foo | grep -v bar

But foo gives sometimes only:

bar
bar
bar...

grep will return -1. How do I transform the exit code 1 to 0?

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

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  • and this seems even to be Posix compliant
    – math
    Jul 20, 2010 at 16:10
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    You can also do || true if you're trying to bypass failure under set -e
    – Daenyth
    Jul 20, 2010 at 16:57
  • @Daenyth Of course that transforms every non-zero exit code to 0, not only 1.
    – MarnixKlooster ReinstateMonica
    Mar 9, 2017 at 9:54
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At least in bash, you can use

foo || (EC=$?; if [ $EC -ne 1 ]; then exit $EC; fi)

This changes exit code 1 to 0, and changes nothing else.

(Perhaps not POSIX-compliant, but probably a POSIX-compliant version exists.)

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