now in it's own repo, like it should be!

includes/error_out.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+
+function error_out()
+{
+        echo "Bailing out. See above for reason...."
+        exit 1
+}
+
+
+function handle_failure() {
+  local lineno=$1
+  local fn=$2
+  local exitstatus=$3
+  local msg=$4
+  local lineno_fns=${0% 0}
+  if [[ "$lineno_fns" != "-1" ]] ; then
+    lineno="${lineno} ${lineno_fns}"
+  fi
+  echo "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}: Function: ${fn} Line Number : [${lineno}] Failed with status ${exitstatus}: $msg"
+}
+
+trap 'handle_failure "${BASH_LINENO[*]}" "$LINENO" "${FUNCNAME[*]:-script}" "$?" "$BASH_COMMAND"' ERR