Marius van Witzenburg We fight for our survival, we fight!

18mei/100

How to trap or catch Keyboard Interrupt in Bash on Linux/FreeBSD

This is a simple code snippet, I think it explains it self.

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22

#!/bin/bash
 
myCleanup() {
  rm -f /myapp/tmp/mylog
  return $?
}
 
myExit() {
  echo -en "n*** Exiting ***n"
  myCleanup
  exit $?
}
 
trap myExit SIGINT
 
# main loop
while true
do
    echo -n "Enter your name: "
    read x
    echo "Hello $x"
done

If you have any questions, just ask :-)

Posted by mariusvw

Geëtiketeerd als: , , , , , , Laat een reactie achter
Reacties (0) Trackbacks (0)

Nog geen reacties


Leave a comment

(required)

Nog geen trackbacks.

» «
Lovebird

Donations

Follow Me!

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 1 other subscriber

Categorieën

Random Quote

The Law has been made to keep you enslaved and it serves only the rulers who make them…

Tags

Agapornis Apache Bash Cisco Code CSS DHCP Disk DNS Download Error Files Flash FreeBSD iOS iPad iPhone IPv6 Ixy JavaScript Linux Lovebird Mac OS X MySQL Perl PHP Ports Replace Rsync Script Server Sharespace Shell SSH Subversion SVN Sync System Terminal Update Upgrade UTF-8 WD Western DIgital XS4ALL

Archief