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Also see {{Internal|Handling Signals in bash|Handling Signals in bash}} | |||
Revision as of 00:03, 9 August 2019
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Overview
Trap is a facility to instruct bash to catch signals and execute code depending on the signal. A common usage in shell scripts is to prevent those scripts to exit untimely when users type keyboard abort sequences, but run cleanup code instead.
Example:
trap 'rm -f ./lock' EXIT
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