On Friday 13 October 2006 07:55, Grant wrote:
> #!/bin/bash
[SNIP]
> vobcopy -m || exit
> mkisofs -dvd-video -V $TITLE -o $FILENAME $TITLE || exit
[SNIP]
>
> Can you tell me what purpose the "|| exit" portions serve?

It's quite common is bash scripts to define a function named die:

die() {
    echo "$@"
    exit 1
}

If you define that at the top of your script you ceplace the above with this:

> vobcopy -m || die "vobcopy failed"
> mkisofs -dvd-video -V $TITLE -o $FILENAME $TITLE || die "mkisofs failed"

I hope you get the point...

-- 
Bo Andresen