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		k3vinw 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Advanced Shell Scripting with Bash (2006) [pdf] One of the first things I do is turn on errexit and pipefail options, but trapping ERR and combining with LINENO to catch silent exits is brilliant!

pottmi 3 months ago [–]

You will like the final version of the traperr ERR function. It looks to create a "stack trace" type dump of where you are in the script when it fails.

See it here: https://github.com/pottmi/stringent.sh

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