[Help-bash] Something like die from perl in bash?

[Peng Yu]

Hi,

"die" in perl can print an error message as well as set the return
code of the perl script. I frequently need to print an error message
and exit with the last error code. I'd like to make it one line. Is it
possible in bash?

prog_to_fail || exit $? # how to print an error message as well exit
with the last status code?

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Regards,
Peng