Re: (clug-talk) Simle Bash Scripting Question

[Alexander Tsang]

On Sat, 2002-11-09 at 19:09, Jesse Kline wrote:
> I've made a very simple bash script to run setiathome and xsetiathome.
> The script looks like this:
> #!/bin/sh
> ~/setiathome/setiathome -graphics &
> ~/setiathome/xsetiathome
> exit 0
> My question is, since I made the setiathome process into a background
> process, how can I get it to terminate when I terminate the script (done
> by hitting Control-C at the command line)?
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Jesse
> 
> 


This should work:

    #!/bin/sh
    
    trap "finish" 2                     # trap ctrl-c
    
    finish()
    {
        kill $PID
    }
    
    ~/setiathome/setiathome -graphics &
    PID=$!
    ~/setiathome/xsetiathome
    exit 0