On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 14:40, Dean Michael Berris wrote: > On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 12:43, Gabriel L. Briones III wrote: > > > > You can appreciate the power of wait command if you are sending jobs in the > > background > > > > consider the scripts below > > > > #!/bin/sh > > updatedb & > > wait > > locate <put desired files here> > > > > ok, please correct me if i'm wrong. > > 1) if you do this in your shell script: > > #!/bin/sh > updatedb > locate (the file you're looking for) > > it means that wait until updatedb finishes and then run locate. > > 2) if you do this in your shell script: > #!/bin
should be #/bin/sh -- my bad! =) > updatedb & > locate (the file you're looking for) > > will run updatedb in the background, then proceed to locate. > > now, if you want to sequentially run the commands, then you don't need > to run updatedb in the background and just do the thing in 1). > > -- > -=[mikhail]=- > > aka Dean Michael C. Berris > mobile +63 917 8901959 > work +63 49 5680024 > http://free.net.ph/Members/mikhailberis > > _ > Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph > To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Fully Searchable Archives With Friendly Web Interface at http://marc.free.net.ph > > To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL > PROTECTED] -- -=[mikhail]=- aka Dean Michael C. Berris mobile +63 917 8901959 work +63 49 5680024 http://free.net.ph/Members/mikhailberis _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Searchable Archives With Friendly Web Interface at http://marc.free.net.ph To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
