Keep exit codes when trapping SIGINT and similar?

If I use trap like described e.g. on http://linuxcommand.org/wss0160.php#trap to catch ctrl-c (or similar) and cleanup before exiting then I am changing the exit code returned. Now this probably won't make difference in the real world (e.g. because the exit codes are not portable and on top of that not always unambiguous as discussed in https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/99112/default-exit-code-when-process-is-terminated) but still I am wondering whether there there is really no way to prevent that and return the default error code for interrupted scripts instead? Example (in bash, but my question shouldn't be considered bash-specific): #!/bin/bash trap 'echo EXIT;' EXIT read -p 'If you ctrl-c me now my return code will be the default for SIGTERM. ' _ trap 'echo SIGINT; exit 1;' INT read -p 'If you ctrl-c me now my return code will be 1. ' _ Output: $ ./test.sh # doing ctrl-c for 1st read If you ctrl-c me now my return code will be the default for SIGTERM. $ echo $? 130 $ ./test.sh # doing ctrl-c for 2nd read If you ctrl-c me now my return code will be the default for SIGTERM. If you ctrl-c me now my return code will be 1. SIGINT EXIT $ echo $? 1 (Edited to remove to make it more POSIX-conform.) (Edited again to make it a bash script instead, my question is not shell-specific though.) Edited to use the portable "INT" for trap in favor of the non-portable "SIGINT". Edited to remove useless curly braces and add potential solution. Update: I solved it now by simply exiting with some error codes hardcoded and trapping EXIT. This might be problematic on certain systems because the error code might differ or the EXIT trap not possible but in my case it's OK enough. trap cleanup EXIT trap 'exit 129' HUP trap 'exit 130' INT trap 'exit 143' TERM