On Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 11:13:11PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > The attraction of a one-liner is partly because of screens > being around four times wider than high (characterwise). > Wouldn't it be nice if bash had Perl's die ….
Some people put a die() function in their scripts, and then use it. die() { printf >&2 '%s\n' "$*"; exit 1; } Or variants thereof. There are almost as many variations as there are shell programmers.