Is there a way to write a bash function which aborts the whole execution, no matter how it is called?

Question

I was using \"exit 1\" statement in my bash functions to terminate the whole script and it worked fine:

function func()
{
   echo \"Goodbye\"
   exit 1
}
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Answer 1

What you could do, is register the top level shell for the TERM signal to exit, and then send a TERM to the top level shell:

#!/bin/bash
trap "exit 1" TERM
export TOP_PID=$$

function func()
{
   echo "Goodbye"
   kill -s TERM $TOP_PID
}

echo "Function call will abort"
echo $(func)
echo "This will never be printed"

So, your function sends a TERM signal back to the top level shell, which is caught and handled using the provided command, in this case, "exit 1".