Is it possible to detect *which* trap signal in bash?

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Solution 1

No documentation hints of any argument or variable holding the signal that was trapped, so you'll have to write a function/trap statement for each trap you want to behave differently.

Solution 2

You can implement your own trap function that automatically passes the signal to the function:

trap_with_arg() {
    func="$1" ; shift
    for sig ; do
        trap "$func $sig" "$sig"
    done
}

$ trap_with_arg func_trap INT TERM EXIT

The first argument to func_trap will be the name of the signal.

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Updated on June 06, 2022

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  • Admin
    Admin about 2 years

    Possible Duplicate:
    Identifying received signal name in bash shell script

    When using something like trap func_trap INT TERM EXIT with:

    func_trap () {
        ...some commands...
    }
    

    Is there a way in the function block to detect which trap has called it?

    Something like:

    func_trap () {
        if signal = INT; then
            # do this
        else
            # do that
        fi
    }
    

    Or do I need to write a separate function for each trap type that does something different? Is there a bash variable that holds the latest received signal?

    Thanks in advance!