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A part of my script is running conditionally ('if' statement), and I want to filter out (by means of 'grep -v') an expression from the whole block which can be a result of several commands.

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Thanks for your quick responses, really impressing...

So there's no chance to exit the script from within the if-condition block, when the result is piped?

Hi there,

following code snippet should output nothing, IMHO. But the result is "THE END".
#!/bin/bash

if true ; thenexit
fi | grep "somesearchstring"

echo "THE END"using bash 4.1.9(1)
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