Every now and then I have to run a foreground job under sudo that doesn't want to die when I hit ^C. Then it's a hassle to ^Z, get the pid of the sudo job, and sudo kill that pid.

So I wrote a little script (or a template for scripts) that runs the sudo job in the background (but preserves stdout/stderr) and relies on bash to clean up the job when you ^C the script. Only gotcha with this is that you may have to retype your sudo password when you ^C if your authentication has timed out by the time you get around to killing it.

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#!/bin/bash
function cleanup()
{
    sudo kill $job_pid
    wait $job_pid
    exit 0
}
trap cleanup SIGTERM
trap cleanup SIGINT
sudo long_running_foreground_process &
job_pid=$!
wait