Today I learned about shell script exit on error
Written on: Jan 28, 2021 • Last update: Jan 28, 2021
Exit on error in bash shell script
Today I learned that you should always prepend your shell scripts with set -e to make sure that If any of your commands fails, your script fails too and wont go further.
By default, if one of the commands fails with an exit code different than 0, your shell script wont stop and you won't notice if something went wrong.
Note that set -e is an alias of set -o errexit. It's probably better to use that one since it's more explicit than a simple "e" that you may not understand it's meaning.