Use the Bash trap Statement to Clean Up Temporary Files

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on May 6, 2009 1:51 AM EDT
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The trap statement in bash causes your script to execute one or more commands when a signal is received. One of the useful things you can use this for is to clean up temporary files when your script exits.

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