Questions tagged [sigtrap]

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dialog, trap and SIGTRAP

I've seen a lot of examples using dialog tools into scripts with lines as follows: trap "rm $datafile" 0 1 2 5 15 What I don't understand is the meaning of SIGNAL 5, ok I know is SIGTRAP. But shame on me, still I don't understand its real…
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Weird aws sync behavior on sigterm

This is baffling behaviour to me. I send a terminate signal to my script while aws s3 sync command is running, and despite me handling the sigterm error, the error trap is also triggered by aws sync command, and I don't understand why. To add to…
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How do I obtain the kill signal / message / reason within a script?

I am using the following trap: trap OnExit EXIT And in my OnExit function I would like to capture all the info I can on what happened so I can write it to a log file. Id like to know who, why, how, when etc.. Is any of this possible?
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