09-07-2018
Hello, Boris.
If "quiet" (-q) isn't used then grep will print any text it finds, to standard output (you can, similarly, make it "quiet" using grep ... >/dev/null). Using -q does not affect the return code of the command. That's what's captured with ||. Using || is telling the shell to execute whatever follows, if grep fails (returns a non-zero return code). If you want to execute the "/bin/sh..." on a successful grep match, you should use && instead. Sometimes with these multi-line type of commands, it's simpler just to use an if statement.
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