I have a while loop in this form:while :; do   performTask1 || break   performTask2 || break   performTask3 || break   ...   performTaskX || breakdoneBasically, I want to break out of the loop whenever one of the tasks errors out. Is there a better way to achieve this?I suppose another way to do this is:while :; do   performTask1 && performTask2 ... && performTaskX || breakdoneHowever, this still looks ugly to me.
Break out of while loop on error
bash;shell script
Essentially you are saying that if a task fails then the subsequent tasks should not execute. There is no need to break, just make the tasks dependent on the successfull completion of preceding tasks:while  performTask1 &&  performTask2 &&  ...  performTaskX-1 &&  performTaskXdo :; doneThere is no need to put all tasks on one line... This form does not look ugly to my eyes.