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Ram Rachum
Asked: 2011-01-29 11:40:14 +0800 CST

Bash: Run an executable giving a good exit status

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I want to run an executable in Linux, and regardless of the exit status that it returns, I want to return a good exit status. (i.e. no error.)

(This is because I'm using sh -ex and I want the script to keep running even if one (specific) command fails.)

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  1. Best Answer

    Give this a try:

    command || true

    From man bash:

    The shell does not exit if the command that fails is part of the command list immediately following a while or until keyword, part of the test following the if or elif reserved words, part of any command executed in a && or ⎪⎪ list except the command following the final && or ⎪⎪, any command in a pipeline but the last, or if the command's return value is being inverted with !.

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  2. Try (executable ; exit 0), or alternatively wrap it in a shell script that always exits 0.

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