Interrupting only one command from a sequence

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In article <1990Nov16.180822.1843 at elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> pjs at euclid.jpl.nasa.gov writes:
>I would like to be able to execute an alias that equates
>to a sequence of commands, e.g. "a; b; c; d" so that
>typing ^C while a is executing causes execution to proceed
>to b, instead of terminating the whole sequence.  I'd also
>like to revert to the normal behavior upon completing the
>command sequence.  Any ideas?

Well, in bash or ksh you could do

alias abcd="a ; b ; c ; d"

Here's what I get with bash.

thor$ abcd
this is a
^Cthis is b
^Cthis is c
^Cthis is d
^Cthor$

Where a, b, c, and d are all links to the same shell script:

echo this is ${0##*/}
sleep 5

Chet
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