[ale] Exiting multi-block shell scripts

[fletch at phydeaux.org (Fletch)]

>>>>> "Kenneth" == Kenneth W Cochran <kwc at world.std.com> writes:


[...]

    Kenneth> What I Want To Do is be able to control-c out of this
    Kenneth> thing "anywhere." Best I've been able to do so far is
    Kenneth> that I have to ^C twice.  I guess I should also mention
    Kenneth> that the "do" object(s) are series of commands (more
    Kenneth> specifically, I'm trying to quickie-ping an
    Kenneth> address-range...)

        The problem is that the ^C is going to the program that's
running, not to the script.  The script itself is simply resuming
execution once the child process exits.  You could check if the child
exited with a non-zero exit status (which it would if killed by a
signal) with something like:

  if [ $? -ne 0 ] ; then 
    echo "Child killed"
    exit 1
  fi

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