diff --git a/scripts/ci/build-and-test.sh b/scripts/ci/build-and-test.sh
index 229a702f4a5..f9a9fd15e93 100755
--- a/scripts/ci/build-and-test.sh
+++ b/scripts/ci/build-and-test.sh
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
+# The script should immediately exit if any command in the script fails.
 set -e
 
 echo ""
diff --git a/scripts/ci/publish-artifacts.sh b/scripts/ci/publish-artifacts.sh
index b4be9e95bed..cc7d49fd0cd 100755
--- a/scripts/ci/publish-artifacts.sh
+++ b/scripts/ci/publish-artifacts.sh
@@ -3,6 +3,9 @@
 # Script that runs after the testing stage of Travis passed.
 # Build artifacts and docs content will be published to different repositories.
 
+# The script should immediately exit if any command in the script fails.
+set -e
+
 # Go to the project root directory
 cd $(dirname $0)/../..
 
diff --git a/scripts/deploy/deploy-dashboard.sh b/scripts/deploy/deploy-dashboard.sh
index 46203a81c36..5e499e55a0f 100755
--- a/scripts/deploy/deploy-dashboard.sh
+++ b/scripts/deploy/deploy-dashboard.sh
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
+# The script should immediately exit if any command in the script fails.
+set -e
+
 # This script deploys the Dashboard App and their Cloud Functions to Firebase.
 # Before the script installs all dependencies and builds the dashboard app in production.
 
diff --git a/scripts/deploy/deploy-screenshot-functions.sh b/scripts/deploy/deploy-screenshot-functions.sh
index 1aad23bda36..8e2f490c8ed 100755
--- a/scripts/deploy/deploy-screenshot-functions.sh
+++ b/scripts/deploy/deploy-screenshot-functions.sh
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
+# The script should immediately exit if any command in the script fails.
+set -e
+
 # Go to the project root directory
 cd $(dirname ${0})/../..
 
diff --git a/scripts/deploy/publish-build-artifacts.sh b/scripts/deploy/publish-build-artifacts.sh
index 8d3364c02eb..c060e394714 100755
--- a/scripts/deploy/publish-build-artifacts.sh
+++ b/scripts/deploy/publish-build-artifacts.sh
@@ -3,7 +3,8 @@
 # Script to publish the build artifacts to a GitHub repository.
 # Builds will be automatically published once new changes are made to the repository.
 
-set -e -o pipefail
+# The script should immediately exit if any command in the script fails.
+set -e
 
 # Go to the project root directory
 cd $(dirname ${0})/../..
diff --git a/scripts/deploy/publish-docs-content.sh b/scripts/deploy/publish-docs-content.sh
index 3778cc6254d..b70e51ba975 100755
--- a/scripts/deploy/publish-docs-content.sh
+++ b/scripts/deploy/publish-docs-content.sh
@@ -3,6 +3,9 @@
 # Publish material2 docs assets to the material2-docs-content repo
 # material.angular.io will pull from this assets repo to get the latest docs
 
+# The script should immediately exit if any command in the script fails.
+set -e
+
 cd "$(dirname $0)/../../"
 
 docsPath="./dist/docs"