Hi there,
I'm using HP-UX 11 machine. I am running a script, thats gonna take a long time to execute. When I press ctrl-c to come out of my script, I have to catch that signal(ctrl-c) and display that ctrl-c had been pressed. How can I do it.


Thanks in advance

Read about trap in man bash/ksh. And then search this forum with the keywords 'trap signal'

I use this trap in one of my install scripts. So if someone hits control -c when my install script is running, it prints that the install was aborted.

USER=$(logname)
LOG=/tmp/sample_install.log
#Set Trap
trap 'print "Install was aborted in the middle of the install by $USER" | tee -a $LOG; exit 1' 1 2 15

Trap based on the signals. I think there is a total of 31 or so. The above line traps for signal 1, 2, and 15.

1 = HUP
2 = INT
15 = TERM

*The output of this command may differ slightly with operating systems.

PS..Buy the book, "Unix Shells by example" Ellie Quigley

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