[ale] bash question

[Todd Pike]

What about using a trap on debug?

trap 'if [ $? != 0 ] then exit ; fi' DEBUG

You might want to do something more sophisticated than just checking $?
but the above will do what you want.  Remember there will be a lot of
overhead with such a trap.

todd..

On Sun, 2006-03-26 at 10:56 -0500, J. D. wrote:
> Ahh.. On re-reading your post I see you want something that does it
> automatically right? Instead of having to put it at several points in
> the script.. I got ya.
> 
> 
> On 3/26/06, J. D. <jdonline at gmail.com> wrote:
>         I'm fairly new to bash scripting but do you think this would
>         work? Use $? at the key points in the script and if it does
>         not equal zero it exits the script? I think $? returns the
>         exit status of the last command executed.
>         
>         Best regards,
>         
>         
>         J. D.
>         
>         
>         On 3/26/06, David Corbin <dcorbin at machturtle.com> wrote:
>                 On Sunday 26 March 2006 08:22 am, Geoffrey wrote:
>                 > 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.
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