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Old 10-10-2011
Suppress a background message in Bash

I'm having trouble with part of this bash script in Linux where I respawn a new instance of script and kill the old one to prevent forking (Yes, I know 'exec' will not fork but this needs to be interactive) When the old instance is kill it pops up "Terminated!" in the middle of the new instance that's running. I've seen a lot of suggestions to answer this here but either I'm not doing it right, or they're all wrong.

Here's the problematic part of the code:
Code:
control_c()
{
   echo -e "Would you like to do something?\n"
   echo -e "Enter y or n: "
   read yn

    if [ "$yn" == "y" ]; then

      echo -e "\nDoing something...\n"
      

                if [ -n $sumvar ]; then

                        echo -e "\nDoing Something else...\n"
                                bash what.sh
                        else
                                bash what.sh
                        fi
                fi


    else
          exit 0
    fi
}

trap control_c SIGINT
trap "rm -f /var/run/mine.pid" EXIT

pid=/var/run/mine.pid

if test -e $pid
then
        kilt=$(awk 'NR==1' $pid)
        exec kill -15 $kilt 2> /dev/null
else
        echo $$ > $pid
fi

Any help much appreciated!
 

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