Proper way to trap in zsh script

Question

I'm having trouble getting a trap function in a zsh shell-script to work without exiting the shell. I have a simple countdown timer that I want to be able to interrupt using Ctrl+C, and when I do I want the trap to change the cursor status in the terminal.

My syntax is:

trap 'tput cnorm; exit' INT TERM

I've also tried:

trap 'tput cnorm; kill -9 $$' INT TERM

both interrupts exit the shell entirely. How do I only exit the script and return to the command line?

Any guidance will be most appreciated!

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It's a shell script that will be an autoloaded function to be used in an interactive shell when it works.

Here's the entire script:

 #!/bin/zsh
 trap 'tput cnorm; exit' INT TERM
 tput civis
 duration=$((1ドル * 60))
 start=$SECONDS
 time=1
 while [ $time -gt 0 ]; do
 output="$((duration - (SECONDS - start)))"
 sleep 1
 output=$(date -d@$time -u +%H:%M:%S)
 echo -ne " $output \r"
 done && echo -e "033円[2K"
 tput cnorm

• Kusalananda: Are you sourcing your script? Using kill -9 would definitely not be necessary. exit would only exit your shell if you source the script. Use return instead if that's the case. Could you clarify if you're talking about a script, a script that you source, or a shell function that you run in an interactive shell, or whatever it may be?
• Кафка: I'm sourcing while I update it, but it will be an autoload function running in an interactive shell when it works.
• Кафка: Using return 1 solved the issue. Thanks!!

Answer 1

Are you including the trap within a shell script, or are you typing it on the command line? Consider, for example:

#!/usr/bin/env zsh
interrupted=false
trap 'tput cnorm; interrupted=true' INT TERM
for ((i = 0; i < 100; ++i)); do
 clear
 date
 sleep 1
 if [[ "${interrupted}" = "true" ]]; then
 echo "Interrupted"
 break
 fi
done

With that I mimic a "countdown" with a delay loop that prints the time. I can interrupt the "countdown". I print "interrupted" just for illustration.

$ ./ex.zsh
Sat Jan 25 12:59:12 EST 2020
^CInterrupted
$

My example includes your tput cnorm, but doesn't really need it since I don't do anything to change it to begin with, but I include it to more closely match what you have in your question above.

Is this something close to what you're trying?

• Кафка: So would it be appropriate to use a break statement rather than an exit?
• Andy Dalton: exit will terminate the script. If you want to terminate the script, exit is fine. In my example above I set state that I checked in a loop, and used that to terminate the script. It all depends on what you want to do when.
• Кафка: So It works if I make it executable, but this shouldn't be necessary if I use it as an autoload function, right?
• Niing: how to terminate the program started via the zsh script?