Automatic exit from bash shell script on error
- by radman
Hi,
I've been writing some shell script and I would find it useful if there was the ability to halt the execution of said shell script if any of the commands failed. See below for an example:
#!/bin/bash
cd some_dir
./configure --some-flags
make
make install
So in this case if the script can't change to the indicated directory then it would certainly not want to do a ./configure afterward it fails.
Now I'm well aware that I could have an if check for each command (which I think is a hopeless solution), but is there a global setting to make the script exit if one of the commands fails?
