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Thanks, Alister!

That really clears some things up! Thanks for taking your time to write that response up. I found it very helpful and I am pretty sure other people will also find it helpful as...

Is there a way to source this script and have the trap that I set up work as intended. I am trying to export variables to script that has a while loop with a sleep command in it. I know I can just...

Hello Alister,

Thanks for your reply. You are correct I am sourcing the script with .

I don't understand why that matters though. I thought when you source a script you are running the...

Also Is there a way to tell what commands, like sleep, are being ran as a child process? Is there a way to make these commands to be ran in a parent process?

Okay, sleep is ran in a child process. That makes sense, but when I press CTRL c for the child process, why does the child process not echo the message to the screen?

trap "echo CTRL c was...

I am having issues with trap not working inside a script. I am currently trying this on a Knoppix system V 5.1. What I would like to happen is when I press control c, a message gets echoed and the...

How about:

FName_No_Extension=c_abc_new

Mod_File_NAME=$(echo $FName_No_Extension`date +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S%N`.txt)

echo $Mod_File_NAME

Produces the output I think you are looking for....