2009/5/31 Kelly Jones kelly.terry.jo...@gmail.com:
How do I wait for a specific process to die? I want to do something like:
waitpid 1234(echo done! | Mail -s PROC DONE kelly.terry.jo...@gmail.com)
I'm sure this is trivial, but I can't find a way to do it.
I wrote a Perl script that checks
How do I wait for a specific process to die? I want to do something like:
waitpid 1234(echo done! | Mail -s PROC DONE kelly.terry.jo...@gmail.com)
if i understand you correctly:
your_program parameters
bg_process_number=$!
...something else...
wait $bg_process_number
echo done!
2009/5/31 Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl:
How do I wait for a specific process to die? I want to do something like:
waitpid 1234(echo done! | Mail -s PROC DONE
kelly.terry.jo...@gmail.com)
if i understand you correctly:
your_program parameters
bg_process_number=$!
Chris Rees wrote:
[ `ps ax |grep pid | wc -l ` = 1 ] (echo done! | Mail -s PROC
DONE kelly.terry.jo...@gmail.com)
Not always going to work. For example,
[ste...@scs:~]% ps ax | grep init
1 ?Ss 0:39 init [2]
13421 pts/1R+ 0:00 grep init
Also if you use its pid,
On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 12:42:37PM -0700, Steven Schlansker wrote:
Chris Rees wrote:
[ `ps ax |grep pid | wc -l ` = 1 ] (echo done! | Mail -s PROC
DONE kelly.terry.jo...@gmail.com)
Not always going to work. For example,
[ste...@scs:~]% ps ax | grep init
1 ?Ss 0:39
Frank Shute wrote:
On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 12:42:37PM -0700, Steven Schlansker wrote:
Chris Rees wrote:
[ `ps ax |grep pid | wc -l ` = 1 ] (echo done! | Mail -s PROC
DONE kelly.terry.jo...@gmail.com)
Not always going to work. For example,
[ste...@scs:~]% ps ax | grep init
1 ?
