Bash script kill background (grand)children on Ctrl+C

Question

I have a Bash script (Bash 3.2, Mac OS X 10.8) that invokes multiple Python scripts in parallel in order to better utilize multiple cores. Each Python script takes a really

Answer 1

Your trap looks good to me:

$ bash --version
GNU bash, version 3.2.48(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin11)
Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

$ cat ./thang 
#! /bin/bash
set -e

cat >work.py <