title: Automatic exit from Bash shell script on error
body: <p>I've been writing some shell script and I would find it useful if there was the ability to halt the execution of said shell script if any of the commands failed. See below for an example:</p>
  <pre><code>#!/bin/bash
  
  cd some_dir
  
  ./configure --some-flags
  
  make
  
  make install
  </code></pre>
  <p>So in this case, if the script can't change to the indicated directory, then it would certainly not want to do a <em>./configure</em> afterwards if it fails.</p>
  <p>Now I'm well aware that I could have an if check for each command (which I think is a hopeless solution), but is there a global setting to make the script exit if one of the commands fails?</p>