Signal Trapping Using Functions

Published on 30 Nov 2007
Tags #Bash

You can easily catch signals thrown at your process and call a function which needs to be defined beforehand:

function sigtrap() {
	echo sigtrap
}

trap "eval sigtrap" HUP

while true
do
	echo .
	sleep 1
done

trap -

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