[dangerbird2]

  try:
    ...
  except BaseException:
    return "yolo"

[banana_giraffe]

Visual Basic was a world leader in this field:

    On Error Resume Next

[nicoburns]

In BASH, you don't even have to do that: it's the default!

[teknopaul]

There are no errors in bash, it always does exactly what it wants to.