shell - In bash, is there an equivalent of die "error msg"

Question

In perl, you can exit with an error msg with die "some msg". Is there an equivalent single command in bash? Right now, I'm achieving this using commands: echo "some msg" && exit 1

Answer 1

You can roll your own easily enough:

die() { echo "$*" 1>&2 ; exit 1; }
...
die "Kaboom"