Re: How to get bash to shut up about SIGPIPE?

From: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Date: May 2, 2005, 16:10 UTC
Message-ID: <20050502091027.6753998e.pj@sgi.com>
In-Reply-To: <4274FB10.6090600@dwheeler.com>

David wrote:

> One approach is to install a trap for SIGPIPE in
> non-terminating command in a pipeline where the
> later items might not process all the data, e.g.:
>    (trap {} SIGPIPE; find .) | head -1

Both the versions of bash that I looked at (2.05 and 3.0) _still_ complain even if SIGPIPE is trapped - they just complain with a more terse message, unless DONT_REPORT_SIGPIPE is not defined.

Linus's version apparently isn't even more terse with this trap.

What bash do you have that this trap silences?

> ... rant ...

agreed

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