On 3/28/11 12:03 PM, tytus64 wrote: > OK. Thanks everybody for their input. Really appreciate all the answers. I > modified the first loop as follows to get the subshell to ignore HUP signal: > > > trap "" HUP; cat $log_file | { > while read line > do > line_num=`expr $line_num + 1` > echo $line_num: $line >> ./out.log > done > }
You might have better luck moving the trap command inside the { ... }, before the while loop. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/