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		moehm on June 21, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: “Exit traps” can make your Bash scripts more robus... That's the difference between kill -15 (SIGTERM) and kill -9 (SIGKILL), where SIGTERM shuts down a process gracefully.

w-ll on June 21, 2023 [–]

Relevant: Monzy performs at Stanford Univ. "Kill Dash Nine" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fow7iUaKrq4

shepherdjerred on June 21, 2023 | [–]

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