Capturing a ^C to break out of a script?

[Joel Hammer]

I am not sure just what you want to do.

The ctrl-c key should be able to kill your program for you. If not, try
ctrl-\.

Usually, I use the &&  or || construct if I need to test for the success of a
command before I continue.
eg:
cvs login || exit 1 
(I am not sure what cvs login is so this command may not work)

You could also set up a trap, eg:
trap CommandToProcessCntrl-c INT

Joel


On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 08:48:03PM +1000, James McDonald wrote:
> Umm I was wondering if there is anyway of breaking out of a script by 
> capturing the CTRL+C combination and completey exiting the script I am 
> running the following and if the login fails it still trys to go through the 
> entire 'for in do'
> 
> Thanks
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> # login to cvs
> 
> me=$0
> 
> export CVSROOT=:pserver:guest at cvs.openoffice.org:/cvs
> 
> 
> cvs login
> 
> for  i in `echo *`
> 
> do
>         echo Checking Out $i
>         cvs -z3 co -PA $i
> done
> 
> cvs logout
> 
> echo "$0 Done"
> 
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