Forcing cleanup code in shell scripts?

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

On Thursday 03 November 2005 1:01 pm, Gordon Marx wrote:
> On 03/11/05, Josh ChaitinPollak <josh at offthehill.org> wrote:
> > Is it possible to trap Ctrl-C and run some cleanup code in a shell
> > script? How would I do that?
>
> Our script dude says "use trap". You should really look into getting a
> script dude, they're awesome to have around when you CBA. :--)
Books are a lot cheaper. There are several good shell programming books, 
such as "Learning the BASH shell", Unix Shell Programming" and many others. 
The current flock of modern shells like BASH and Korn are very 
sophisticated, but also relatively easy to use for small tasks. (If you 
want to do serious scripting work, then Perl or Python is better suited. 
-- 
Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix user group
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