Simple bash problem.

[Miskell, Craig]

> Anyone know why the following simple bash script fails
> on RHEL3 (fully patched)?  It seems the "trap" command
> is being silently ignored.
> 
> 
> --------------------------------------------
> #!/bin/sh
> 
> sigtrap () {
>     echo "Caught signal!"
>     exit 0
> }
> 
> trap sigtrap 1 2 3 15
> 
> while read X; do
>     echo $X
> done
> --------------------------------------------

I'm not 100% sure, but I think it might be because of the #! Line.  Bash
might be seeing that you've invoked with "/bin/sh", and is deciding to
operate in limited POSIX shell mode (sorry, the exact terminology for
that escapes me).  Try #!/bin/bash and see how that goes,

Craig
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