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<center><font size="2">The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 6<br>
IEEE Std 1003.1-2001<br>
Copyright &copy; 2001 The IEEE and The Open Group, All Rights reserved.</font></center>
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<h4><a name="tag_04_146_01"></a>NAME</h4>
<blockquote>trap - trap signals</blockquote>
<h4><a name="tag_04_146_02"></a>SYNOPSIS</h4>
<blockquote class="synopsis">
<p><code><tt>trap</tt> <b>[</b><i>action condition</i> <tt>...</tt><b>]</b></code></p>
</blockquote>
<h4><a name="tag_04_146_03"></a>DESCRIPTION</h4>
<blockquote>
<p>If <i>action</i> is <tt>'-'</tt> , the shell shall reset each <i>condition</i> to the default value. If <i>action</i> is null (
<tt>""</tt> ), the shell shall ignore each specified <i>condition</i> if it arises. Otherwise, the argument <i>action</i> shall be
read and executed by the shell when one of the corresponding conditions arises. The action of <i>trap</i> shall override a previous
action (either default action or one explicitly set). The value of <tt>"$?"</tt> after the <i>trap</i> action completes shall be
the value it had before <i>trap</i> was invoked.</p>
<p>The condition can be EXIT, 0 (equivalent to EXIT), or a signal specified using a symbolic name, without the SIG prefix, as
listed in the tables of signal names in the <a href="../basedefs/signal.h.html"><i>&lt;signal.h&gt;</i></a> header defined in the
Base Definitions volume of IEEE&nbsp;Std&nbsp;1003.1-2001, <a href="../basedefs/xbd_chap13.html#tag_13">Chapter 13, Headers</a>;
for example, HUP, INT, QUIT, TERM. Implementations may permit names with the SIG prefix or ignore case in signal names as an
extension. Setting a trap for SIGKILL or SIGSTOP produces undefined results.</p>
<p>The environment in which the shell executes a <i>trap</i> on EXIT shall be identical to the environment immediately after the
last command executed before the <i>trap</i> on EXIT was taken.</p>
<p>Each time <i>trap</i> is invoked, the <i>action</i> argument shall be processed in a manner equivalent to:</p>
<pre>
<tt>eval</tt> <i>action</i>
</pre>
<p>Signals that were ignored on entry to a non-interactive shell cannot be trapped or reset, although no error need be reported
when attempting to do so. An interactive shell may reset or catch signals ignored on entry. Traps shall remain in place for a given
shell until explicitly changed with another <i>trap</i> command.</p>
<p>When a subshell is entered, traps that are not being ignored are set to the default actions. This does not imply that the
<i>trap</i> command cannot be used within the subshell to set new traps.</p>
<p>The <i>trap</i> command with no arguments shall write to standard output a list of commands associated with each condition. The
format shall be:</p>
<pre>
<tt>"trap -- %s %s ...\n", &lt;</tt><i>action</i><tt>&gt;, &lt;</tt><i>condition</i><tt>&gt; ...
</tt>
</pre>
<p>The shell shall format the output, including the proper use of quoting, so that it is suitable for reinput to the shell as
commands that achieve the same trapping results. For example:</p>
<pre>
<tt>save_traps=$(trap)
...
eval "$save_traps"
</tt>
</pre>
<p><sup>[<a href="javascript:open_code('XSI')">XSI</a>]</sup> <img src="../images/opt-start.gif" alt="[Option Start]" border="0">
XSI-conformant systems also allow numeric signal numbers for the conditions corresponding to the following signal names: <img src=
"../images/opt-end.gif" alt="[Option End]" border="0"></p>
<table border="1" cellpadding="3">
<tr valign="top">
<th align="center">
<p class="tent"><b>Signal Number</b></p>
</th>
<th align="center">
<p class="tent"><b>Signal Name</b></p>
</th>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td align="left">
<p class="tent"><sup>[<a href="javascript:open_code('XSI')">XSI</a>]</sup> <img src="../images/opt-start.gif" alt="[Option Start]"
border="0"> 1</p>
</td>
<td align="left">
<p class="tent">SIGHUP <img src="../images/opt-end.gif" alt="[Option End]" border="0"></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td align="left">
<p class="tent"><sup>[<a href="javascript:open_code('XSI')">XSI</a>]</sup> <img src="../images/opt-start.gif" alt="[Option Start]"
border="0"> 2</p>
</td>
<td align="left">
<p class="tent">SIGINT <img src="../images/opt-end.gif" alt="[Option End]" border="0"></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td align="left">
<p class="tent"><sup>[<a href="javascript:open_code('XSI')">XSI</a>]</sup> <img src="../images/opt-start.gif" alt="[Option Start]"
border="0"> 3</p>
</td>
<td align="left">
<p class="tent">SIGQUIT <img src="../images/opt-end.gif" alt="[Option End]" border="0"></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td align="left">
<p class="tent"><sup>[<a href="javascript:open_code('XSI')">XSI</a>]</sup> <img src="../images/opt-start.gif" alt="[Option Start]"
border="0"> 6</p>
</td>
<td align="left">
<p class="tent">SIGABRT <img src="../images/opt-end.gif" alt="[Option End]" border="0"></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td align="left">
<p class="tent"><sup>[<a href="javascript:open_code('XSI')">XSI</a>]</sup> <img src="../images/opt-start.gif" alt="[Option Start]"
border="0"> 9</p>
</td>
<td align="left">
<p class="tent">SIGKILL <img src="../images/opt-end.gif" alt="[Option End]" border="0"></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td align="left">
<p class="tent"><sup>[<a href="javascript:open_code('XSI')">XSI</a>]</sup> <img src="../images/opt-start.gif" alt="[Option Start]"
border="0"> 14</p>
</td>
<td align="left">
<p class="tent">SIGALRM <img src="../images/opt-end.gif" alt="[Option End]" border="0"></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td align="left">
<p class="tent"><sup>[<a href="javascript:open_code('XSI')">XSI</a>]</sup> <img src="../images/opt-start.gif" alt="[Option Start]"
border="0"> 15</p>
</td>
<td align="left">
<p class="tent">SIGTERM <img src="../images/opt-end.gif" alt="[Option End]" border="0"></p>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<p>The <i>trap</i> special built-in shall conform to the Base Definitions volume of IEEE&nbsp;Std&nbsp;1003.1-2001, <a href=
"../basedefs/xbd_chap12.html#tag_12_02">Section 12.2, Utility Syntax Guidelines</a>.</p>
</blockquote>
<h4><a name="tag_04_146_04"></a>OPTIONS</h4>
<blockquote>
<p>None.</p>
</blockquote>
<h4><a name="tag_04_146_05"></a>OPERANDS</h4>
<blockquote>
<p>None.</p>
</blockquote>
<h4><a name="tag_04_146_06"></a>STDIN</h4>
<blockquote>
<p>None.</p>
</blockquote>
<h4><a name="tag_04_146_07"></a>INPUT FILES</h4>
<blockquote>
<p>None.</p>
</blockquote>
<h4><a name="tag_04_146_08"></a>ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES</h4>
<blockquote>
<p>None.</p>
</blockquote>
<h4><a name="tag_04_146_09"></a>ASYNCHRONOUS EVENTS</h4>
<blockquote>
<p>None.</p>
</blockquote>
<h4><a name="tag_04_146_10"></a>STDOUT</h4>
<blockquote>
<p>None.</p>
</blockquote>
<h4><a name="tag_04_146_11"></a>STDERR</h4>
<blockquote>
<p>None.</p>
</blockquote>
<h4><a name="tag_04_146_12"></a>OUTPUT FILES</h4>
<blockquote>
<p>None.</p>
</blockquote>
<h4><a name="tag_04_146_13"></a>EXTENDED DESCRIPTION</h4>
<blockquote>
<p>None.</p>
</blockquote>
<h4><a name="tag_04_146_14"></a>EXIT STATUS</h4>
<blockquote>
<p>If the trap name <sup>[<a href="javascript:open_code('XSI')">XSI</a>]</sup> <img src="../images/opt-start.gif" alt=
"[Option Start]" border="0"> &nbsp;or number <img src="../images/opt-end.gif" alt="[Option End]" border="0"> is invalid, a non-zero
exit status shall be returned; otherwise, zero shall be returned. For both interactive and non-interactive shells, invalid signal
names <sup>[<a href="javascript:open_code('XSI')">XSI</a>]</sup> <img src="../images/opt-start.gif" alt="[Option Start]" border=
"0"> &nbsp;or numbers <img src="../images/opt-end.gif" alt="[Option End]" border="0"> shall not be considered a syntax error and do
not cause the shell to abort.</p>
</blockquote>
<h4><a name="tag_04_146_15"></a>CONSEQUENCES OF ERRORS</h4>
<blockquote>
<p>None.</p>
</blockquote>
<hr>
<div class="box"><em>The following sections are informative.</em></div>
<h4><a name="tag_04_146_16"></a>APPLICATION USAGE</h4>
<blockquote>
<p>None.</p>
</blockquote>
<h4><a name="tag_04_146_17"></a>EXAMPLES</h4>
<blockquote>
<p>Write out a list of all traps and actions:</p>
<pre>
<tt>trap
</tt>
</pre>
<p>Set a trap so the <i>logout</i> utility in the directory referred to by the <i>HOME</i>
environment variable executes when the shell terminates:</p>
<pre>
<tt>trap '$HOME/logout' EXIT
</tt>
</pre>
<p>or:</p>
<pre>
<tt>trap '$HOME/logout' 0
</tt>
</pre>
<p>Unset traps on INT, QUIT, TERM, and EXIT:</p>
<pre>
<tt>trap - INT QUIT TERM EXIT
</tt>
</pre>
</blockquote>
<h4><a name="tag_04_146_18"></a>RATIONALE</h4>
<blockquote>
<p>Implementations may permit lowercase signal names as an extension. Implementations may also accept the names with the SIG
prefix; no known historical shell does so. The <i>trap</i> and <a href="../utilities/kill.html"><i>kill</i></a> utilities in this
volume of IEEE&nbsp;Std&nbsp;1003.1-2001 are now consistent in their omission of the SIG prefix for signal names. Some <a href=
"../utilities/kill.html"><i>kill</i></a> implementations do not allow the prefix, and <a href=
"../utilities/kill.html"><i>kill</i></a> <b>-l</b> lists the signals without prefixes.</p>
<p>Trapping SIGKILL or SIGSTOP is syntactically accepted by some historical implementations, but it has no effect. Portable POSIX
applications cannot attempt to trap these signals.</p>
<p>The output format is not historical practice. Since the output of historical <i>trap</i> commands is not portable (because
numeric signal values are not portable) and had to change to become so, an opportunity was taken to format the output in a way that
a shell script could use to save and then later reuse a trap if it wanted.</p>
<p>The KornShell uses an <b>ERR</b> trap that is triggered whenever <a href="../utilities/set.html"><i>set</i></a> <b>-e</b> would
cause an exit. This is allowable as an extension, but was not mandated, as other shells have not used it.</p>
<p>The text about the environment for the EXIT trap invalidates the behavior of some historical versions of interactive shells
which, for example, close the standard input before executing a trap on 0. For example, in some historical interactive shell
sessions the following trap on 0 would always print <tt>"--"</tt> :</p>
<pre>
<tt>trap 'read foo; echo "-$foo-"' 0
</tt>
</pre>
</blockquote>
<h4><a name="tag_04_146_19"></a>FUTURE DIRECTIONS</h4>
<blockquote>
<p>None.</p>
</blockquote>
<h4><a name="tag_04_146_20"></a>SEE ALSO</h4>
<blockquote>
<p><a href="xcu_chap02.html#tag_02_14"><i>Special Built-In Utilities</i></a></p>
</blockquote>
<h4><a name="tag_04_146_21"></a>CHANGE HISTORY</h4>
<h4><a name="tag_04_146_22"></a>Issue 6</h4>
<blockquote>
<p>XSI-conforming implementations provide the mapping of signal names to numbers given above (previously this had been marked
obsolescent). Other implementations need not provide this optional mapping.</p>
</blockquote>
<div class="box"><em>End of informative text.</em></div>
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