Handling Signals in bash

External

• http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/10815

Internal

• bash
• Linux Signals
• trap

Overview

The signals are caught with the trap built-in.

trap '<executable code or function name>' <signal>

 ...
 function sigint() {
 
   echo "signal INT received"
   exit 0   
 }
 
 trap 'sigint' INT
 ...

For more details on how trap should be used, see:

trap