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Old 11-20-2008
trap ctrl c in shell script

how to trap the ctrl c in unix shell script

my script is running in while loop it should not be terminate with ctrl c.

if i press ctrl c while running script it shloud ignore the same.


please healp..........


thanks in advance
# 2  
Old 11-20-2008
There is plenty on the web already:
Trapping Exits Caused by Interrupts | O'Reilly Media

So trap signal 2 and 3.
# 3  
Old 11-28-2008
trap sig_handler 15

or trap sig_handler SIGTERM
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