In my opinion, turning off the -e
option to your shell is a really bad idea. Eventually one of the commands in your script will fail due to transient conditions like out of disk space or network errors. Without -e
Jenkins won't notice and will continue along happily. If you've got Jenkins set up to do deployment, that may result in bad code getting pushed and bringing down your site.
If you have a line in your script where failure is expected, like a grep or a find, then just add || true
to the end of that line. That ensures that line will always return success.
If you need to use that exit code, you can either hoist the command into your if statement:
grep foo bar; if [ $? == 0 ]; then ... --> if grep foo bar; then ...
Or you can capture the return code in your ||
clause:
grep foo bar || ret=$?