In my shell script, im deleting a file at the end of script. And i need it to be deleted even if the script was stopped by (ctrl c or ctrl z)..Is there any way to read that and delete the file?
Thanks in advance
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In my shell script, im deleting a file at the end of script. And i need it to be deleted even if the script was stopped by (ctrl c or ctrl z)..Is there any way to read that and delete the file?
Thanks in advance
Like @pgl said,
trapis what you want. The syntax is:trap <actionhere> <event> [event...]The action is one and only one argument, but it can run several commands. The event is either
exit(when you callexitmanually) or a signal by its “short” name, ie without theSIGprefix (for instance,INTforSIGINT.Example:
trap "rm -f myfile" INT exitYou can change the trap all along the script. And of course, you can use variable interpolation in your action.