BASH - using trap ctrl+c

Question

I\'m trying to execute commands inside a script using read, and when the user uses Ctrl+C, I want to stop the execution of the command, but not exit th

Answer 1

You need to run the command in a different process group, and the easiest way of doing that is to use job control:

#!/bin/bash 

# Enable job control
set -m

while :
do
    read -t 10 -p "input> " input
    [[ $input == finish ]] && break

    # set SIGINT to default action
    trap - SIGINT

    # Run the command in background
    bash -c "$input" &

    # Set our signal mask to ignore SIGINT
    trap "" SIGINT

    # Move the command back-into foreground
    fg %-

done