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  1. Nov 2020
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    In a Bash script, how can I exit the entire script if a certain condition occurs?
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    1. TylerRick 13 Nov 2020
      yell() { echo "$0: $*" >&2; } die() { yell "$*"; exit 111; } try() { "$@" || die "cannot $*"; }
      one-liners concise bash: error handling error/exception handling clever funny shell scripting
    2. TylerRick 13 Nov 2020
      If you were to check the return status of every single command, your script would look like this:

      Illustrates how much boilerplate set -e saves you from.

      Update: Oops, if you read a comment further below, you learn that:

      Actually the idiomatic code without set -e would be just make || exit $?

      True that.

      good illustration (textual) boilerplate shorthand bash: error handling syntactic sugar good example comparison differences
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  3. Dec 2019
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    Bash subshell errexit semantics
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    1. TylerRick 18 Dec 2019
      bash: error handling bash: errexit
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