It's a Trap!

I do a big use of shell scripts, and many of them contain a for loop, do you know what normally happen when you press CTRL^C and the script is executing an action inside the loop?

for i in test{6..10}.com; do
    echo "pinging ${i}"; ping -c 10 $i;
done;

You will have to press 5 times CTRL^C to quit the script.

To solve this problem and let the script terminate on the first CTRL^C you can use trap:

trap "echo Exited!; exit;" SIGINT SIGTERM

for i in test{6..10}.com; do
    echo "pinging ${i}"; ping -c 10 $i;
done;

Trap will execute the command specified when one of the signal is fired, for more information man trap

Enjoy your bash scripting ;).