Question

I want to do something like:

for i in *
do
    if test -d $i
    then
        cd $i; make clean; make; cd -;
    fi;
done

And this works fine, but I want “break” the for-loop in case of a broken build.

Is there a way to do this? Maybe some kind of if-statement, that can check for success of make?

Answer 1

You can check whether the make has exited successfully by examining its exit code via the $? variable, and then have a break statement:

...
make

if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
    break
fi