How to exit if a command failed?

Question

I am a noob in shell-scripting. I want to print a message and exit my script if a command fails. I\'ve tried:

my_command && (echo \'my_command failed         


        

Answer 1

You can also use, if you want to preserve exit error status, and have a readable file with one command per line:

my_command1 || exit $?
my_command2 || exit $?

This, however will not print any additional error message. But in some cases, the error will be printed by the failed command anyway.