From 877537228ff235688bedab80c37f2c9737440014 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: jbranchaud <jbranchaud@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2024 19:55:22 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Add Gracefully Exit A Script With Trap as a Unix TIL

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 README.md                                  |  3 ++-
 unix/gracefully-exit-a-script-with-trap.md | 29 ++++++++++++++++++++++
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 create mode 100644 unix/gracefully-exit-a-script-with-trap.md

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@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ pairing with smart people at Hashrocket.
 
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+_1508 TILs and counting..._
 
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@@ -1465,6 +1465,7 @@ _1507 TILs and counting..._
 - [Global Substitution On The Previous Command](unix/global-substitution-on-the-previous-command.md)
 - [Globbing For All Directories In Zsh](unix/globbing-for-all-directories-in-zsh.md)
 - [Globbing For Filenames In Zsh](unix/globbing-for-filenames-in-zsh.md)
+- [Gracefully Exit A Script With Trap](unix/gracefully-exit-a-script-with-trap.md)
 - [Grep For Files Without A Match](unix/grep-for-files-without-a-match.md)
 - [Grep For Files With Multiple Matches](unix/grep-for-files-with-multiple-matches.md)
 - [Grep For Multiple Patterns](unix/grep-for-multiple-patterns.md)
diff --git a/unix/gracefully-exit-a-script-with-trap.md b/unix/gracefully-exit-a-script-with-trap.md
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+# Gracefully Exit A Script With Trap
+
+With `trap` you can intercept signals that would cause your script to exit and
+then inject some additional behavior. Perhaps you want to make sure the script
+cleans up after itself before it exists.
+
+During this script's execution, it creates a file in the filesystem. It would
+be nice to make sure that no matter path this script ends up down that it will
+clean up after itself as it exits. We set up a `trap` that looks for the `EXIT`
+signal to do this.
+
+```bash
+# Set up trap
+trap 'echo "Cleaning up temp files"; rm -f *.tmp' EXIT
+
+# Create temporary file
+echo "test data" > work.tmp
+
+# Do some work
+cat work.tmp
+
+# Trap will clean up on exit
+```
+
+Whatever is in quotes is what the trap will execute when it is triggered. The
+following one or more signals are what the trap listens for, in this case
+`EXIT`.
+
+[source](https://tldp.org/LDP/Bash-Beginners-Guide/html/sect_12_02.html)