How to catch and handle errors in bash (2021)

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clever implementation of a try/catch like thing in bash. If my scripts get that complicated I usually up-scale the code to $LANG_IN_FASHION_AT_WORK

The implementation of try/catch is far from perfect.

Just a first review pass:

* `export` is used instead of `local`

* `exit` instead of `return`