diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index 089413e0..956bd8fd 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -75,19 +75,20 @@ commands =
     # We only skip testing untouched tutorials in PRs; in cron and dispatch all should be tested. Make sure we don't jupytext non-notebook files.
     !buildhtml: bash -c 'if [[ $GITHUB_EVENT_NAME == pull_request && -z "$(grep force_run:all_tests ${GITHUB_EVENT_PATH})" ]]; then grep -f changed_tutorials all_tutorials; else cat all_tutorials; fi | grep -vf ignore_testing | xargs jupytext --to notebook '
 
-    !buildhtml: bash -c "echo 'Notebooks ignored (not tested/executed) in this job:\n'; cat ignore_testing | sort | uniq"
+    !buildhtml: bash -c "echo 'Notebooks ignored (not tested/executed) in this job:'; cat ignore_testing | sort | uniq"
+
     !buildhtml: pytest --nbval-lax -vv --suppress-no-test-exit-code --durations=10 tutorials
 
     # We don't want to execute in rendering the ones we ignore for testing
-    buildhtml: bash -c 'grep -f ignore_testing all_tutorials > ignore_execute'
+    buildhtml: bash -c '(grep -f ignore_testing all_tutorials || true) > ignore_execute'
 
     # On CircleCI rendering preview, we also don't want to execute anything that hasn't been modified
-    buildhtml: bash -c 'if [[ $CIRCLECI == true ]]; then grep -vf changed_tutorials all_tutorials >> ignore_execute; fi'
+    buildhtml: bash -c 'if [[ $CIRCLECI == true ]]; then (grep -vf changed_tutorials all_tutorials || true) >> ignore_execute; fi'
 
     # sed -i needs a bit of hacky conditional on ubuntu to cover the case of an empty ignore
     buildhtml: bash -c 'if [ -s ignore_execute ]; then for name in $(cat ignore_execute | sort| uniq); do if [ -z "$(head -n 20 ${name}| grep execute:)" ]; then sed -i -e "s|kernelspec:|execute:\n  skip: true\nkernelspec:|g" ${name}; fi; done;fi'
 
-    buildhtml: bash -c "echo 'Notebooks ignored (not tested/executed) in this job:\n'; cat ignore_execute | sort | uniq"
+    buildhtml: bash -c "echo 'Notebooks ignored (not tested/executed) in this job:'; cat ignore_execute | sort | uniq"
 
     # Using srtict so we fail with trackbacks and debug mode to have a richer log
     # For full build we disable parallel runs to easy server load