[bash] Error handling in Bash

This function has been serving me rather well recently:

action () {
    # Test if the first parameter is non-zero
    # and return straight away if so
    if test $1 -ne 0
    then
        return $1
    fi

    # Discard the control parameter
    # and execute the rest
    shift 1
    "$@"
    local status=$?

    # Test the exit status of the command run
    # and display an error message on failure
    if test ${status} -ne 0
    then
        echo Command \""$@"\" failed >&2
    fi

    return ${status}
}

You call it by appending 0 or the last return value to the name of the command to run, so you can chain commands without having to check for error values. With this, this statement block:

command1 param1 param2 param3...
command2 param1 param2 param3...
command3 param1 param2 param3...
command4 param1 param2 param3...
command5 param1 param2 param3...
command6 param1 param2 param3...

Becomes this:

action 0 command1 param1 param2 param3...
action $? command2 param1 param2 param3...
action $? command3 param1 param2 param3...
action $? command4 param1 param2 param3...
action $? command5 param1 param2 param3...
action $? command6 param1 param2 param3...

<<<Error-handling code here>>>

If any of the commands fail, the error code is simply passed to the end of the block. I find it useful when you don't want subsequent commands to execute if an earlier one failed, but you also don't want the script to exit straight away (for example, inside a loop).

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