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NAME

trap - trap signals and conditions

SYNOPSIS

trap [ options ] [action condition ...]

DESCRIPTION

trap is a special built-in that defines actions to be taken when conditions such as receiving a signal occur. Also, trap can be used to display the current trap settings on standard output.

If action is -, trap resets each condition to the default value. If action is an empty string, the shell ignores each of the conditions if they arise. Otherwise, the argument action will be read and executed by the shell as if it were processed by eval(1) when one of the corresponding conditions arise. The action of the trap will override any previous action associated with each specified condition. The value of $? is not altered by the trap execution.

condition can be the name or number of a signal, or one of the following:
EXIT
This trap is executed when the shell exits. If defined within a function defined with the function reserved word, the trap is executed in the caller's environment when the function returns and the trap action is restored to the value it had when it called the function.
0
Same as EXIT.
DEBUG
Executed before each simple command is executed but after the arguments are expanded.
ERR
Executed whenever set -e would cause the shell to exit.
KEYBD
Executed when a key is entered from a terminal device.

Signal names are case insensitive and the sig prefix is optional. Signals that were ignored on entry to a noninteractive shell cannot trapped or reset although doing so will not report an error. The use of signal numbers other than 1, 2, 3, 6, 9, 14, and 15 is not portable.

Although trap is a special built-in, specifying a condition that the shell does not know about causes trap to exit with a non-zero exit status, but does not terminate the invoking shell.

If no action or conditions are specified then all the current trap settings are written to standard output.

OPTIONS

-p
Causes the current traps to be output in a format that can be processed as input to the shell to recreate the current traps.

EXIT STATUS

0
Successful completion.
>0
An error occurred.

SEE ALSO

kill(1), eval(1), signal(3)

IMPLEMENTATION

version
trap (AT&T Research) 1999-07-17
author
David Korn <dgk@research.att.com>
copyright
Copyright © 1982-2010 AT&T Intellectual Property
license
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/cpl1.0.txt