Catch Ctrl-C
examples/signals/catch_ctr_c.pl
#!/usr/bin/env perl use strict; use warnings; my $ctrl_c = 0; $SIG{INT} = sub { if ($ctrl_c) { print "\nCtrl-C received twice\n"; exit(); } $ctrl_c++; print "\nPlease, press Ctr-C again if you really mean it\n"; }; print "Please press Ctrl-C to terminate this program:\n"; my $i = 0; while (1) { $i++; print "$i\n"; sleep 1; } print "done\n";