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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting shell scripting best practices - trap command Post 302346829 by zaxxon on Monday 24th of August 2009 07:33:27 AM
Old 08-24-2009
For my part I do use the trap command very rarely. If I have need for it, I do but usually I don't since the scripts I write are for admin purposes etc. and they run mostly as root or with an technical account so I don't have to fear any unwanted kills interrupting them.
 

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users-admin

users-admin(1)						      General Commands Manual						    users-admin(1)

NAME

       users-admin - Users Administration Tool

SYNOPSIS

       users-admin [OPTION...]

DESCRIPTION

       users-admin is part of the GNOME system tools, a set of tools to easily access and manage system configuration.

       users-admin allows you add, delete and modify the existing users and groups in your system.

OPTIONS

       users-admin accepts the standard GNOME and GTK options.

AUTHORS

       users-admin was written by Carlos Garnacho Parro <garnacho@tuxerver.net> and others.

       This manual page was written by Sven Arvidsson <sa@whiz.se>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

SEE ALSO

       services-admin(1), network-admin(1), time-admin(1), shares-admin(1), gtk-options(7), gnome-options(7)

       The online documentation available through the program's Help menu.

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