On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 3:22 PM, Johannes Schindelin
<Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> >> +set -e
>> >
>> > Is this really necessary? I really like to avoid `set -e`, in
>> > particular when we do pretty much everything in && chains anyway.
>>
>> Agreed, not really necessary here as we just invoke one command. Out of
>> curiosity: Why do you try to avoid it? I set it by default in all my
>> scripts.
>
> I try to avoid it because it encourages a style that omits helpful error
> messages.
Yeah, we prefer to define and use a die() function like this:
die () {
printf >&2 '%s\n' "$*"
exit 1
}
do_something || die "meaningful error message"