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AI-generatedWhich exit status should a deployment‑check script treat as success when grep finds no matches?
Goal Diagnose a failed deployment by inspecting application logs with a Bash script that uses grep and head pipelines. Constraints The script runs with set -e and set -o pipefail to abort on errors, but grep returns 1 when no lines match, 2 on file errors, and 141 when terminated by SIGPIPE from head . These statuses are not automatically distinguishable by
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