Error handling in bash | Notifox Blog
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Most bash scripts are very brittle because error handling is an afterthought. In this blogpost you'll learn about the easiest ways to gracefully catch and handle errors. Best practices and common pitfalls.
  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip
    4·
    13 hours ago

    Do you need POSIX compability?

    • If not, use bash-isms without shame

    But call it a bash script then! Remember: #!/bin/sh is run by all kinds of shells; consider them POSIX. Bash is #!/bin/bash.

        • cr1cket@sopuli.xyz
          3·
          5 hours ago

          Well, that won’t work on openbsd (and probably freebsd), because non-default.stuff lands in /usr/local/bin.

          For Linux you should be fine though.