[ale] Exiting multi-block shell scripts

[Danny Cox]

Ken,

On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Kenneth W Cochran wrote:
> Indeed...  But "trap 'exit 0' 0" wouldn't stop it...
> I guess I'm still trying to grok some of the picky syntax-stuff...  :)

	Yeah, some of the older shells would loop on this.  They'd hit
the exit, then run the trap command, which was an exit, so they'd run
the trap command, ...

	Try: trap 'trap "" 0; exit 0' 0, which will disable the sig 0
trap when it runs.  It should exit then.

Danny

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