Can't use CTRL-C to exit a script

[Rodel D. Bautista]

Hi to all, I've created a menu-based script and I want the user to exit from the script using the available options and not by using CTRL-C. How would I implement this? What snippet of code can I add in my script so that this will be possible?

TIA

[Chris Wilshaw]

If you just want to disable CTRL+C, you should add the line

trap "" 2

to the script.

For extra protection (from hangup and quit signals)

use trap "" 1 2 3

[RolandH]

Put this in your script at the beginning.

stty intr ^-

this will change the interrupt routine to undefined.


Roland

[T G Manikandan]

You can introduced a case statement where you can check for the condition and then exit out from the script.


Thanks

[Rodel D. Bautista]

Sir Chris, will the command also disable CTRL-D? What do you mean when you say that it will also disable hangup and quit signals?

again, thanks.

[RolandH]

Hi Rodel,

PLEASE, do not waht I suggest before.
It switched off the interrupted routine for the shell you have in wihich you start the script, too. So do that in your script:

trap "" 2



Roland
(NO POINTS ,PLEASE)

[Chris Wilshaw · Accepted solution]

Rodel,

The command won't disable CTRL+D, although this shouldn't matter as the user is in a script, and CTRL+D is normally an exit from a shell.

The hangup and quit signals,(from man kill);

1 SIGHUP Hangup Terminate; can be trapped
2 SIGINT Interrupt Terminate; can be trapped
3 SIGQUIT Quit Terminate with core dump; can be trapped

The Quit signal can be triggered manually using CTRL+\ (another potential way for users to exit the script).

The hangup is more normally sent directly via the kill command (kill -HUP PID)

If you use kill -l (that's a lower case L), it will list all signals that can be sent from the kill command, most of which can be trapped if necessary. More details can be seen in the man pages using

man 5 signal

[Rodel D. Bautista]

Sir Chris, how would I enable again CTRL-C because one option of my script goes to a shell prompt and I can't use CTRL-C to interrupt a running process/command?

again, thanks.

[Chris Wilshaw]

To re-enable the signal, use

trap - 2, then call your shell.

The - sets the trap for whichever signals you list after it back to their default values.

Chris