That's good to know, thank you. I looked at the man page and did not see how to reset the trap. After some googling, I think that a trap reset might look something like this?
Code:
trap - SIGINT SIGQUIT SIGTSTP
Is that the correct way to reset the trap?
Also, if the script is terminated with CTRL+c (without resetting the trap), the trap settings won't effect other scripts that I run afterwards, will it? Does the trap only apply to the script that it was called from?
I should point out that in my example I used integer values and yours used the signal name(s); either one is valid. Here are the values I used(kill -l will list other values):
SIGHUP 1 death of controlling terminal or process
SIGINT 2 <Ctrl><C>
SIGQUIT 3 <Ctrl><D>
SIGTERM 15 Software termination
If you have properly used the shebang at the top of your script to identify the shell interpreter, ie. #!/bin/ksh then your script is spawned in a subshell and the trap does not need to be reset because when the script execution terminates the trap values are lost.
The point of the reset is if you have something like: trap 'ls -l' 2 (which will cause <Ctrl><C> to do a long listing) for part of your script, you'll might want to put it back with trap - 2 for normalcy.
One last thing, trap is usually used to clean up when a script is aborted so it probably is used more like:
Thank you all for your assistance - I really appreciate it. Things seem to be running smoothly at this point and are to my liking. Here is the finished version of the script:
Code:
#!/bin/bash
#######################################################################
## ##
## This script will play and repeat either one or more audio files ##
## that are contained in the current working directory. ##
## *Script requires that mplayer and figlet are installed. ##
## author: Darrin Goodman ##
## email: hilltopyodeler@gmail.com ##
## ##
## This program is free software and is available without warranty. ##
## You are free to redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms ##
## of the GNU General Public License as published by the ##
## Free Software Foundation, either version 3 or any later ##
## version of the license. ##
## ##
#######################################################################
## Set up trap so that it will allow you to terminate the script at any time using CTRL+C
## https://www.unix.com/shell-programming-scripting/244861-bash-question-howto-exit-script-user-input-while-process-running-mid-loop.html
trap 'exit 1' 1 2 3 15
###############################################################################
## BEGIN FUNCTIONS SECTION
doWhat()
{
echo -n "Repeat one file (1) or many files (M)? "
read quantity
echo ""
case $quantity in
1) oneFile ;;
m|M) manyFiles ;;
q|Q) quitski ;;
*) incorrectEntry ;;
esac
}
repeatNum()
{
echo -n "Enter the number of times you would like to play the file(s): "
read num
echo ""
}
oneFile()
{
echo -n "What is the name of the file? "
read file
echo ""
checkFile
repeatNum
echo "-------------------------------------------------------------------------------"
echo "-------------------------------------------------------------------------------"
echo ""
for ((i=1; i <= $num; i++))
do mplayer $file;
done
again
}
checkFile()
{
## Check to make sure that the file exists
if [ ! -f $file ]; then
echo " Hmmm... [ $file ] - This file does not exist; did you type it correctly?"
echo ""
oneFile
else
echo ""
fi
}
manyFiles()
{
echo -n "Enter the file type or extension (mp3 / ogg / *) "
read ext
echo ""
repeatNum
echo "-------------------------------------------------------------------------------"
echo "-------------------------------------------------------------------------------"
echo ""
for ((j=1; j <= $num; j++))
do mplayer *.$ext;
done
again
}
incorrectEntry()
{
echo " **************************************"
echo " * *"
echo " * INVALID ENTRY! Please try again. *"
echo " * *"
echo " **************************************"
echo ""
doWhat
}
again()
{
echo "-------------------------------------------------------------------------------"
echo "-------------------------------------------------------------------------------"
figlet "Done."
figlet "What next?"
echo "-------------------------------------------------------------------------------"
echo "-------------------------------------------------------------------------------"
echo ""
echo -n "What would you like to do now? ....Start over (s) or Quit (q)? "
echo ""
read whatNow
case $whatNow in
s|S) doWhat ;;
q|Q) quitski ;;
*) echo "Huh?" ; again ;;
esac
}
quitski()
{
clear
echo ""
figlet Good Bye!
echo ""
echo ""
exit
}
## END FUNCTIONS SECTION
###############################################################################
## Clear the screen
clear
figlet "Music Repeater"
echo "-------------------------------------------------------------------------------"
echo "This program will play one or more audio files, however many times you specify."
echo "Exit this script at any time with CTRL+C."
echo ""
## What do you want to do? Repeat one or many files?
doWhat
## End of program; exit
figlet END
# Reset all traps
trap - SIGINT SIGQUIT SIGTSTP
exit 0
This script suits my needs well. There may be more efficient ways to code this process, so please feel free make appropriate changes and re-post it if you like, and feel free to use it if it benefits you in some way.
Thanks again to those of you who offered assistance with getting the script to terminate with CTRL+c.
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