Trap Ctrl-C in a Bash script
How to trap Ctrl-C in a Bash script?
The piece of code:
# trap ctrl-c and call ctrl_c()
trap ctrl_c INT
function ctrl_c() {
echo
echo "Ctrl-C by user"
# do the jobs
exit
}
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