Make a shell script fail loudly

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The four lines that turn a script from 'carries on after an error' into 'stops at the first problem'.

#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -Eeuo pipefail
trap 'echo "failed at line $LINENO" >&2' ERR
IFS=$'\n\t'

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