Yes, you are correct, that line is buggy and contains a typo. I added it later
in a hurry after I could reproduce the error, to ensure a clean shutdown of the
script. What I meant to type was:
> trap "kill $!; exit 0" INT TERM
However thinking about it, this also does not work as intended.
The
Hi,
I have a problem with a trap handler in a script, which is doing some logging
and needs external commands (date and hostname). In some cases there seems to
be a race condition causing a syntax error every once in a while. I am assuming
it is a race condition, because the syntax errors only
