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Re: Stop script if one command returns != 0

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From: Chris Johnson <johnch@xxxxxxxx>
To: Florian Lindner <mailinglists@xxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Stop script if one command returns != 0
Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 09:19:06 -0500
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Florian Lindner sent me the following 0.2K:

> I have a script that I source with a number of commands and exports.
> Is there a way to tell zsh (or even in a portable way to sh) to stop
> execution of this script if any of the commands returns a return
> code other than zero?

Setting the ERR_EXIT option will cause the script to bail:

setopt ERR_EXIT
ls "file does not exist"                                                                                                                                                           
echo "this won't appear"

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Chris Johnson
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