[aklug] Re: bash die

On Wed, 15 Sep 2010, Christopher Howard wrote:

> Say you have a bash script where if any command fails, the scripts
> should stop. What would be the sensible way to deal with that?
>
> I was thinking, write some kind of die function, and then for each command:
>
> command_1 || die("command_1 failed")
> mount /this/file || die("failed to mount important filesystem")
> ...
>
> Or is there some better way to do this?

Don't use bash, use make. That's exactly what it was designed to do.

         --Arthur Corliss
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Received on Wed Sep 15 13:19:50 2010