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Old 10-08-2008
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Originally Posted by Prashantckc View Post
However I think there is a way in shell scripting by which say if a script fails at a particular point then in that case it stops execution there itself and does not proceed further. How to achieve that?
Probably you might want to read the ksh documentation about "traps". It seems to me that this is doing exactly what you want.

I hope this helps.

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