force-exit-zero

Force a command to exit with code 0 (success).

The Problem: Your CI fails because a linter found a warning, or a non-critical script returned exit code 1. You try adding || true but it doesn't work consistently across Windows/Linux shells.

The Solution: force-exit-zero runs your command, streams the output (colors preserved), and always reports success to the OS.

Install

npm install force-exit-zero

Usage

In package.json scripts

{
  "scripts": {
    "lint": "eslint .",
    "lint:ci": "force-exit-zero npm run lint"
  }
}

In GitHub Actions / CI

steps:
  - run: npx force-exit-zero npm run test:flaky

CLI

$ force-exit-zero ls --unknown-flag
ls: unrecognized option '--unknown-flag'
# (The command failed, but the process exited with 0)

Why not || true?

• || true doesn't work in standard Windows cmd.exe.
• || true can be confusing in complex npm run chains.
• force-exit-zero is explicit: you are intentionally suppressing the failure.

License

MIT

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