G T Smith wrote:

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Sam Clemens wrote:

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Control-C usually will stop a running script. And you can use trap to deal with any tidying up afterwards... Not really what trap is intended for but it should work...syntax below... Actually, that's EXACTLY what trap was designed for.

What I meant was trap is not really intended for interactive user I/O but reviewing the sentence again, I admit it is more than a little ambiguous.. oh well :-)

A tool is what you make of it. I'm quite sure that the ability to trapping SIGINT was intended all along. Why? Because otherwise, Ctrl-C would produce SIGKILL (which can't be trapped/caught), not SIGINT. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org