[ale] bash question

[esoteric at 3times25.net (Geoffrey)]

David Corbin wrote:
> I right my share of shell scripts, and I know how to check for the status of 
> one command and terminate the script.
> 
> I was wondering if there is a an option to bash to have it quit the script 
> automatically when a command returns a non-zero status.  It would make some 
> scripts much cleaner.

What's wrong with something like:

command || exit 1

Or you could write yourself a shell function that's called on failure. 
It would give you a single point of exit.

Other then that, I don't think there's a way to do what you want.

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey

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