Functions to deal with errors in bash
+err: usually, just source this. contains the others and runs errcatch
+
errcatch: set a trap on error to do bash-trace and exit
errallow: undo errcatch
errexit: exit and print stack trace
--- /dev/null
+#!/bin/bash
+# this file was generated from gen-err and meant to be sourced
+bash-trace() {
+ local -i argc_index=0 frame i start=${1:-1} max_indent=8 indent
+ local source
+ local extdebug=false
+ if [[ $(shopt -p extdebug) == *-s* ]]; then
+ extdebug=true
+ fi
+ for ((frame=0; frame < ${#FUNCNAME[@]}-1; frame++)); do
+ argc=${BASH_ARGC[frame]}
+ argc_index+=$argc
+ ((frame < start)) && continue
+ if (( ${#BASH_SOURCE[@]} > 1 )); then
+ source="${BASH_SOURCE[frame+1]}:${BASH_LINENO[frame]}:"
+ fi
+ indent=$((frame-start+1))
+ indent=$((indent < max_indent ? indent : max_indent))
+ printf "%${indent}s↳%sin \`%s" '' "$source" "${FUNCNAME[frame]}"
+ if $extdebug; then
+ for ((i=argc_index-1; i >= argc_index-argc; i--)); do
+ printf " %s" "${BASH_ARGV[i]}"
+ done
+ fi
+ echo \'
+ done
+}
+errallow() {
+ if [[ $1 ]]; then
+ echo "errallow help: Undo the complimentary errcatch function."
+ else
+ set +E +o pipefail; trap ERR
+ fi
+}
+errcatch() {
+ set -E; shopt -s extdebug
+ _err-trap() {
+ err=$?
+ exec >&2
+ set +x
+ echo "${BASH_SOURCE[1]}:${BASH_LINENO[0]}:in \`$BASH_COMMAND' returned $err"
+ bash-trace 2
+ set -e
+ "${_errcatch_cleanup[@]}"
+ echo "$0: exiting with code $err"
+ exit $err
+ }
+ trap _err-trap ERR
+ set -o pipefail
+}
+errexit() {
+ exec >&2
+ code=1
+ if [[ $@ ]]; then
+ if [[ ${1/[^0-9]/} == "$1" ]]; then
+ code=$1
+ if [[ $2 ]]; then
+ echo "$2"
+ fi
+ else
+ echo "$0: $1"
+ fi
+ fi
+ echo "${BASH_SOURCE[1]}:${BASH_LINENO[0]}"
+ bash-trace 2
+ echo "$0: exiting with code $code"
+ exit $err
+}
+errcatch
--- /dev/null
+#!/bin/bash
+
+x="$(readlink -f "$BASH_SOURCE")"; cd ${x%/*} # directory of this file
+
+cat <<'EOF' >err
+#!/bin/bash
+# this file was generated from gen-err and meant to be sourced
+EOF
+sed -r '/^ *(#|$)/d' *-function >>err
+echo errcatch >>err