Is there a TRY CATCH command in Bash?
No.
Bash doesn’t have as many luxuries as one can find in many programming languages.
There is no try/catch in bash; however, one can achieve similar behavior using && or ||.
Using ||:
if command1 fails then command2 runs as follows
command1 || command2
Similarly, using &&, command2 will run if command1 is successful
The closest approximation of try/catch is as follows
{ # try
command1 &&
#save your output
} || { # catch
# save log for exception
}
Also bash contains some error handling mechanisms, as well
set -e
it stops your script if any simple command fails.
And also why not if...else. It is your best friend.