Exit bash script on error in loop

[Johnny Rosenberg]

I can't make exit work as I thought it would work…

#!/bin/bash

Title="Error"
ERROR="Something bad happened."

while [ something ]; do
    if [[ something_bad ]]; then
        yad --title "${Title}" \
            --image=error \
            --text "${ERROR}" \
            --no-buttons \
            --timeout 5 &
        exit 1
    fi
done
more_statements

# End of code

The problem is that even if something_bad happens, more_statements are
executed. The yad error messages is displayed as expected, though.

(yad is a dialogue, similar to zenity, or even a zenity fork, I think –
yad=Yet Another Dialogue)

So it seems like only the loop is exited when exit 1 is executed, not the
whole script. So how can I exit the whole script if something bad happens
inside a loop? I'd prefer a solution that doesn't make it necessary to
rewrite the script from scratch…


Regards

Johnny Rosenberg
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