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Wait for other process to finish

   1  
   2  # There's another process you want to wait on.  In this example,
   3  # you know the pid, and it's contained in the file $PID_FILE.
   4  while ps -p `cat $PID_FILE` > /dev/null; do sleep 1; done
   5  
   6  # Now you can continue knowing that process has finished...
to linux unix bash shell by beek on Aug 08, 2005 1 Comments
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