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Error handling in bash
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I do not want to think about every possible error that can happen. I do not want to study every program I call to look for any possible errors. Only errors that are important to my task.
As I said, there are reasons to use this option when the script MUST fail on error.And its helpful for creating the script. I just don't like generalizations to always enable this option.