Kill a running shell script, and kill all process running within it

Question

I have a shell script running in the background, which runs 5 different jobs.

When I run the shell script all 5 jobs start running in order. When I kill this shell, whichever process is running, will still continue to run, even though I have killed the shell.

$ bash shell.sh & echo $!

this gives me the PID of the shell, which allows me to kill it later if I wish to do so at some point.

#!/bin/bash

JOB1
JOB2
JOB3
JOB4
JOB5

How can I make the shell kill all process running within, once it has been killed?

Answer 1

#!/bin/bash
declare -a bgpids

cleanup() {
    for pid in ${bgpids[@]}; do
        kill -9 $pid
    done
}
trap "cleanup" SIGINT SIGTERM

sometask &
bgpids+=("$!")