[aklug] Re: bash die

From: Tim Gibney <timgibney76@gmail.com>
Date: Wed Sep 15 2010 - 16:40:02 AKDT

Doesn't Apple have an event driven replacement for SysV scripting that is
opensource with a Linux port? I am thinking maybe you can write several
scripts and link them together with something event driven that calls the
other scripts. ... ok that sounds like an ugly hack too.

On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Christopher Howard <choward@indicium.us>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?
>
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