Questions tagged [shell-trap]

I've tried to use trap to remove a temporary file at the end of a Bourne shell script, but this doesn't work: trap "trap \"rm \\\"$out\\\"\" EXIT INT TERM" 0 This is inside a function, by the way, hence the attempt at a nested trap. How do I do it?

I have a script that I'm making to use to start/stop/etc a JBoss AS (v7.1.1). I'm running on SUSE Enterprise 11, so the provided initscript doesn't work. The problem I'm running into with my script is that the cleanup function is never…

I am using a shell script to automatically search network access points, and in airodump you use ctrl + c to stop the search, and I am wanting to it cancel the search but keep my shell script running. Since I am wanting to do user input after I am…