I mentioned that these days I write Go for a living, which involves a lot of: if err := thingThatMightFail(); err != nil { ... } so I was sayi

I mentioned that these days I write Go for a living, which involves a lot of: if err := thingThatMightFail(); err != nil { ... } so I was saying that of course I think lots of `if` statements for error handling are reasonable. (Hmm, thinking back, I learned Go in 2012, and my Bash probably peaked in 2013, I wonder if having learned Go made me more amenable to this in Bash.) I think a single-line `cmd || die "msg"` like in Perl or Ruby is handy and fine. Or maybe even a two-line some command that might fail || die "Some message that is long enough that it wants to be its own line" But once it starts getting to have multiple statements that you're grouping with `{ }`, just use an `if` statement. If I were reviewing someone's Ruby that had multiple lines after the "or" in "or die", I'd tell them to just use unless thingThatMightFail ... end