In my bash script, I'm running an external command that's stored in $cmd
variable. (It could be anything, even some simple bash oneliner.)
If ctrl+C is pressed while running the script, I want it to kill the currently running $cmd
but it should still continue running the main script. However, I would like to preserve the option to kill the main script with ctrl+C when the main script is running.
#!/bin/bash
cmd='read -p "Ooook?" something; echo $something; sleep 4 '
while true; do
echo "running cmd.."
eval "$cmd" # ctrl-C now should terminate the eval and print "done cmd"
echo "done cmd"
sleep 5 # ctrl-C now should terminate the main script
done
Any idea how to do it some nice bash way?
Changes applied based on answers:
#! /bin/bash
cmd='read -p "Ooook1?" something; read -p "Oook2?" ; echo $something; sleep 4 '
while true; do
echo "running cmd.."
trap "echo Interrupted" INT
eval "($cmd)" # ctrl-C now should terminate the eval and print "done cmd"
trap - INT
echo "done cmd"
sleep 5 # ctrl-C now should terminate the main script
done
Now, pressing ctrl+C while "Ooook1?" read will break the eval only after that read is done. (it will interrupt just before "Oook2") However it will interrupt "sleep 4" instantly.
In both cases it will do the right thing - it will just interrupt the eval subshell, so we're almost there - just that weird read behaviour..