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Revised to handle letting pre-existing mountpoints alone. Assuming the code is in this format, where the lines that might cause trouble have one command per line, which is either mount or umount:

mount a x mount b y setup_thing mount c z do_something umount z cleanup_thing umount y umount x 

This bash kludge might work... copy this code to the 2nd line of the script:

source <(mount | cut -d' ' -f3 |  sed 's/.*/^u\?mount [^[:space:]]\* &$/' |   grep -v -f - $0) ; exit 

How it (theoretically) works:

1. Use mount and cut to make a list of pre-existing mountpoints, to be left alone.
2. Use sed to create a list of grep patterns that match those mount or umount commands which use any of those mountpoints.
3. Use grep -v to search the current script for any lines that don't match the previous list of grep patterns. Leaving all the code that's fit to run.
4. Use source to run only that code...
5. And exit.

Test beforehand by changing source to cat and examining the output. If it looks good, put source back in.

Revised to handle letting pre-existing mountpoints alone. Assuming the code is in this format, where the lines that might cause trouble have one command per line, which is either mount or umount:

mount a x mount b y setup_thing mount c z do_something umount z cleanup_thing umount y umount x 

This kludge might work... copy this code to the 2nd line of the script:

mount | cut -d' ' -f3 | sed 's/.*/^u\?mount [^[:space:]]\* &$/' | grep -v -f - $0 | sed 2d | exec sh -s -- "$@" 

How it (theoretically) works:

1. Use mount and cut to make a list of pre-existing mountpoints, to be left alone.
2. Use sed to create a list of grep patterns that match those mount or umount commands which use any of those mountpoints.
3. Use grep -v to search the current script for any lines that don't match the previous list of grep patterns. Leaving all the code that's fit to run.
4. Use sed to remove the 2nd line, to prevent recursion.
5. Use exec sh -s -- "$@" to run only that code, along with any command line arguments. Nothing past the exec line is run.

Test beforehand by changing exec to cat # and examining the output. If it looks good, put exec back in.

Revised to handle letting pre-existing mountpoints alone. Assuming the code is in this format, where the lines that might cause trouble have one command per line, which is either mount or umount:

mount a x mount b y setup_thing mount c z do_something umount z cleanup_thing umount y umount x 

This kludge might work... copy this code to the 2nd line of the script:

source <(mount | cut -d' ' -f3 | sed 's/.*/^u\?mount [^[:space:]]\* &$/' | grep -v -f - $0) ; exit 

How it (theoretically) works:

1. Use mount and cut to make a list of pre-existing mountpoints, to be left alone.
2. Use sed to create a list of grep patterns that match mount or umount commands that use any of those mountpoints.
3. Use grep -v to search the current script for any lines that don't match the previous list of grep patterns. Leaving all the code that's fit to run.
4. Use source to run only that code...
5. And exit.

Test beforehand by changing source to cat and examining the output. If it looks good, put source back in.

Revised to handle letting pre-existing mountpoints alone. Assuming the code is in this format, where the lines that might cause trouble have one command per line, which is either mount or umount:

mount a x mount b y setup_thing mount c z do_something umount z cleanup_thing umount y umount x 

This bash kludge might work... copy this code to the 2nd line of the script:

source <(mount | cut -d' ' -f3 | sed 's/.*/^u\?mount [^[:space:]]\* &$/' | grep -v -f - $0) ; exit 

How it (theoretically) works:

1. Use mount and cut to make a list of pre-existing mountpoints, to be left alone.
2. Use sed to create a list of grep patterns that match those mount or umount commands which use any of those mountpoints.
3. Use grep -v to search the current script for any lines that don't match the previous list of grep patterns. Leaving all the code that's fit to run.
4. Use source to run only that code...
5. And exit.

Test beforehand by changing source to cat and examining the output. If it looks good, put source back in.

Avoid those problems by only continuing if each mount is successful:

mount a x && mount b y && mount c z && do_something umount z y x 

Or if do_something should happen in any event:

mount a x ; mount b y ; mount c z do_something umount z y x 

Revised to handle letting pre-existing mountpoints alone. Assuming the code is in this format, where the lines that might cause trouble have one command per line, which is either mount or umount:

mount a x  mount b y setup_thing mount c z  do_something umount z cleanup_thing umount y umount x 

This kludge might work... copy this code to the 2nd line of the script:

source <(mount | cut -d' ' -f3 |   sed 's/.*/^u\?mount [^[:space:]]\* &$/' |   grep -v -f - $0) ; exit 

How it (theoretically) works:

1. Use mount and cut to make a list of pre-existing mountpoints, to be left alone.
2. Use sed to create a list of grep patterns that match mount or umount commands that use any of those mountpoints.
3. Use grep -v to search the current script for any lines that don't match the previous list of grep patterns. Leaving all the code that's fit to run.
4. Use source to run only that code...
5. And exit.

Test beforehand by changing source to cat and examining the output. If it looks good, put source back in.