That's a nice list; I guess every experienced user has their helper functions. However, I have a small criticism for the philosophy of that `die`: `die` functi

That's a nice list; I guess every experienced user has their helper functions. However, I have a small criticism for the philosophy of that `die`: `die` functions should pass by default the exit code of the failed command, and not silence its error output. If I want to give my own meaning to the command failure in a large script for instance, I will use a different, more specialized `die`. My own die is roughly as follows: __errex() { printf 'Fatal error [%s] on line %s in '"'"'%s'"'"': %s\n' \ "${1:-"?"}" \ "${2:-"?"}" \ "${3:-"unknown script"}" \ "${4:-"unknown error"}" >&2 ; exit "${1:-1}" } alias die='__errex "$?" "${LINENO}" "$0"'