28th June 2022
TIL
Ignoring errors in a section of a Bash script
— For [simonw/museums#32](https://github.com/simonw/museums/issues/32) I wanted to have certain lines in my Bash script ignore any errors: lines that used `sqlite-utils` to add columns and configure FTS, but that might fail with an error if the column already existed or FTS had already been configured.
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