Subject: bug#30105: Additional "grep" parameter to change the exit code from 1 to 0, even if grep doesn't find pattern

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2018 22:57:27 -0800

Vasyl Vavrychuk wrote:
> I would like to have an option to return success if nothing is found but
> still return fail if error happens.

You can use a shell command like this:

grep PATTERN FILE
test $? -lt 2

I don't see the need for a special grep option to handle this problem.