bash job control output redirection madness

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Tue, 2009-03-24 at 08:18 -0700, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> Hopefully someone has run across this before and has some ideas.
> 
> I've got a (bash) shell script (foo.sh) that calls another shell
> script(bar.sh) and backgrounds it at the same time.  Later on, foo.sh
> kills bar.sh.  That much works fine.  The problem is that when bar.sh
> gets killed (with kill), the shell spews output like this:
> ./foo.sh: line 57: 12434 Terminated              ~/bar.sh
> ./foo.sh: line 57: 13707 Terminated              ~/bar.sh

Perhaps the trap command could help? By default, the shell prints this
info. But with the trap command you can replace what happens with your
own function. I use it to catch ^C.

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Roger Oberholtzer

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