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

#!/bin/bash

trap 'echo "Caught SIGUSR1"' SIGUSR1

echo "Sleeping.  Pid=$$"
while :
do
   sleep 10 &
   wait $!
   echo "Sleep over"
done

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

Just a point about the wait after the sleep because I've just made this error in my script:

You should use wait $! instead of wait if, inside your script, you already launched other processes in background

For example, the wait inside the next snippet of code will wait for the termination of both process_1 and sleep 10:

process_1 &
  ...
sleep 10 &
wait  

If you use, instead of wait, wait $! your script will wait only for sleep 10, because $! means PID of last backgrounded process.