bash control-c trap

[arvidjaar]

So, I'm not fully understanding what is going on when I press control-c with a trap and child-process is running.

SIGINT is delivered to shell that runs the script as well as to child process.

Otherwise I completely lost track of what you are trying to do, why you post those random code snippets and what we are supposed to do with them, sorry.

[lord_valarian]

The code snips are helpful code that shows similar problems and solutions from a website, job control.

What is wrong with this code?

#!/bin/bash
trap_key=false

# capture the interrupt control-c
trap 'trap_key=controlc' 2

clamscan -r /

if [ trap_key = 'controlc' ]; then
    printf "clamscan interrupted\n"
else
    printf "clamscan completed
fi

[arvidjaar]

What is wrong with this code?

Nothing until you explain what you expect this code to do, what this code actually does and why you think it is wrong.

[lord_valarian]

I want control-c to cancel clamscan and return to the script. The variable controls the print. Prints results if control-c was pressed or not.

The code snip I included looks like it does that. I have not had chance to test it yet.

[arvidjaar]

I want control-c to cancel clamscan and return to the script.

This is entirely up to clamscan and shell has no control over it. If clamscan ignores or handles SIGINT, it will continue running. Shell won't get control until clamscan is terminated.

[lord_valarian]

This is entirely up to clamscan and shell has no control over it. If clamscan ignores or handles SIGINT, it will continue running. Shell won't get control until clamscan is terminated.

I think I know what is happening, thanks to help from here. Control-c is working, but it's causing an error "unexpected EOF" which causes the script to drop to the command line. I'm using a loop which I didn't add into writing my simple script. I forgot to add a control-c flag inside the a loop and need go back over the scanvirus script.


There are two ways I'v found to catch this error.

http://redsymbol.net/articles/bash-exit-traps/

Using signal exit to unmount the drive if the script exits for any reason. The link shows how to use the exit signal to restart a script if it crashes.


http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6...-in-bash#69808

Using sig error to trap this error.

Thanks for the help all.

I'll have to come back to this problem later. A new error appeared on my SED stream filter line on scanvirus script.

[lord_valarian]

I found an alternative method to fix the problem, using the 'trap function exit'.

Thanks to all for the help....