How do I wait for a specific process to die? I want to do something like:

waitpid 1234&&(echo "done!" | Mail -s "PROC DONE" [email protected])

if i understand you correctly:

your_program parameters &
bg_process_number=$!

...something else...

wait $bg_process_number
echo "done!"



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