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Old 02-17-2010
how to disable and enable <control>-c or -z in a shell script
Dear all,
good day.

i'm asking about how to disable <control>-c or <control>-z in the beginning of a shell script then enable it again before the script exit

Best Regards

---------- Post updated at 04:41 AM ---------- Previous update was at 04:18 AM ----------

Dear All
i found the answer


trap '' 2
echo "This is a test. Hit [Ctrl+C] to test it..."
sleep 20
trap 2


thank you
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Old 02-17-2010
Or you can use

PHP Code:
trap '' INT

trap '' HUP 
For more Details
trap
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Old 02-17-2010
can you please tell me the difference ????
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Old 02-17-2010
This is basically a symbolic name of the actual signal (that's an integar value). If you follow the link above in reply from amitranjansahu, you can see it gives you all the details.

The benefit of using a symbolic name is that it's more descriptive coding.
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