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

[Greg Wooledge]

On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 09:40:29AM -0600, Peng Yu wrote:
> 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?

die() {
    local status=$?
    echo "$1" >&2
    exit $status
}