Signal Trapping Using Variables

Published on 30 Nov 2007
Tags #Bash

You can easily catch signals thrown at your process and set variables accordingly:

trap "TEST=blah" HUP

TEST=
while true
do
	echo .
	sleep 1
	echo -n $TEST
	TEST=
done

trap -

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