Re: trap on error

[Brian S. Paskin]

Paul Jarc wrote:

> "Brian S. Paskin" <brian@paskino.com> wrote:
>> I am not familiar with the traps under Linux.  Which trap should I use if
>> I receive an error (ie. command returns value > 0) within my bash script?
> 
> What do you mean by "trap"?
> 
> 
> paul
> 

trap "function_name" ERR

Under the AIX platform I would write something like this is in a ksh script 
and it would call the function when a called function in the script 
returned a value > 0.  I do not know what the equivilant is for ERR under 
Linux/bash.

Many thanks,
Brian