Interrupt sleep in bash with a signal trap

Question

I\'m trying to catch the SIGUSR1 signal in a bash script that is sleeping via the sleep command:

#!/bin/bash

trap \'echo \"Caught          


        

Answer 1

Remark that

sleep infinity &
wait

puts the sleep in background, and stops the wait with the signal. This leaves an infinite sleep behind on every signal !

Replace the sleep and wait with

read

and you will be fine.