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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting New advice on error checking Post 302863573 by rdogadin on Monday 14th of October 2013 03:52:19 PM
Old 10-14-2013
New advice on error checking

HI All,

Whenever I write a shell script I always check if a command got executed successfully, even for the commands like cd, mv, rm and others, and even for the cases when there is ALMOST nothing to stop this commands from executing with success. so I am wondering if it is an overkill. I am thinking that there is always a chance that some directory might be accidently removed by a user/process and so on.

So I am just curious to hear about your approach to this.
Thanks
 

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