using both trap and exec to redirect output to tee in bash

Question

I have script that reads lines from a file, processes each line. I'd like to be able to do some "post-processing" in a way that even when the script didn't finish reading all lines because I pressed Ctrl+C it would still do the post processing. To achieve this I'm trying to do both of the following:

1. redirect stdout to a file; Later do the post-processing from that file, however I'd like to see what's going on, so I'd like to redirect to "tee"
2. trap Ctrl+C and do the post processing there

I managed to make either 1 or 2 work, but not both at the same time:

#!/bin/bash

# 2. Either this works 
# trap ctrl-c and call ctrl_c()
trap ctrl_c INT
function ctrl_c() {
    echo "** Trapped CTRL-C"
}

# 1. Or this works    
LOGFILE=/tmp/${FILE}.tee
rm ${LOGFILE}
exec > >(tee ${LOGFILE}) 2>&1

function post_process() {
    # use ${LOGFILE}
}

egrep "(${URL_PATH})" ${FILE} |
    while read LINE ; do
        #...
    done

post_process

Answer 1

You should ignore the ^C / SIGINT in the post-process function:

preprocess(){
   yes baa
}
postprocess(){
   sed 's/a/z/g'
}
preprocess | { trap '' INT; postprocess; sleep 1; echo DONE; }

When you run that pipeline and press ^C, preprocess will be killed, but postprocess will continue running until all the output produced by preprocess has been consumed.

Notice that the trap '' INT (with an empty string as the handler) will also ignore SIGINT in the subprocesses; do not replace it with eg. trap 'echo INT trapped' INT because that will cause any sed, etc. to be killed too by '^C', despite the signal being handled in the parent process.