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A Linux user's nightmare: the machine was wiped clean with one click
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set -euo pipefail
at the top of every script makes stuff a lot safer. Explanation here.Yep! I always do this too.
TL;DR:
e
aborts the whole script on a non-zero error.u
aborts when using an undefined variable.-o pipefail
aborts a piped compound command when one of the piped commands fail.Any other way lies madness. Or erasing the whole filesystem apparently!