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Sunday, 27 June 2021

Bash script preamble

All background Bash scripts should start with this preamble:

set -euo pipefail exec > ~/log.log 2>&1

There are countless articles explaining why, and the main purpose of this one is a reminder for myself, so I won't go into the details. For reference:

  • -e halts the script on error
  • -u errors when using an undefined variable
  • -o pipefail makes pipe error return value sane
  • exec > ~/log.log 2>&1 redirect all output to ~/log.log

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