Exit CD when fail for a variety of reasons

[jaykishanmutkawoa]

cd can fail for a variety of reasons: misspelled paths, missing directories, missing permissions, broken symlinks and more.

If/when it does, the script will keep going and do all its operations in the wrong directory. This can be messy, especially if the operations involve creating or deleting a lot of files. To avoid this, make sure you handle the cases when cd fails. Ways to do this include:

cd foo || exit as suggested to abort immediately, using exit code from failed cd command

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[crw]

@jaykishanmutkawoa thanks for this submission! We do not normally accept contributions to the build scripts. However, I will check in the triage meeting if this is something we would want to change.

Just a reminder to please sign the CLA to have your submission considered for a potential merge. Thanks!

[crw]

Hi @jaykishanmutkawoa, if you sign the CLA we are willing to merge this change. Thanks!

[jaykishanmutkawoa]

Hi @jaykishanmutkawoa, if you sign the CLA we are willing to merge this change. Thanks!

done.. thanks

[crw]

LGTM, after conversation with @liamcervante

[github-actions]

Reminder for the merging maintainer: if this is a user-visible change, please update the changelog on the appropriate release branch.

[kmoe]

@jaykishanmutkawoa Are you using this script in your Terraform workflow?

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