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I have a script with the following code:

command_that_could_fail || (echo "command failed"; exit 1)

However, the exit seems to just be exiting from the sub-command formed by the second part of the line (in parentheses), not from the script itself. Any way that I can make it behave as desired, and exit from the outer script?

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  • Just use braces instead of parentheses. Commented Aug 9, 2015 at 0:23

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You probably want to do something like:

bail() {
   echo "$*"
   exit 1
}
command_that_could_fail || bail "command failed"
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