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Oh, you want to clean up tempfiles.  If they're scratch files that
should get deleted no matter what, why not use EXIT to clean them up?



On 5/14/08, Mark J. Reed <markjreed AT mail DOT com> wrote:
> You seem to be confused.   ERR is not a  signal; it is a shell feature
> designed to trap exactly the circumstance you're seeing: some command
> exits with nonzero status.  A nonzero exit status is an "error", which
> is what ERR traps.
>
> What do you *want* the "aborting" message to mean?
>
>
>
> On 5/14/08, David Arnstein <arnstein AT panix DOT com> wrote:
>> Is this a bug? The following three-line shell script prints out the
>> string
>> 	<aborting>
>> when executed.
>>
>> #!/bin/bash
>> trap "echo '<aborting>' ; exit 1" ERR
>> grep -q -e 'foo' < /dev/null
>>
>> This indicates that grep has raised the signal ERR. It is inconvenient
>> for me. I am attempting to clean up some scratch files whenever a
>> shell script aborts. I use the trap command to do this. However, the
>> above command
>> 	grep -q -e 'foo' < /dev/null
>> is NOT aborting my shell script. It simply returns status 1, which I
>> do NOT want to handle by calling exit.
>>
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