> while ps -ef | grep $processname; do sleep 60; done && echo "done" | \ > mail -s "subject" user > But it might be tricky to identify the right process.
grepping ps will invariably also return the grep line, so this will
hit a false positive. Better to use pgrep rather than ps & grep.
Using pgrep without any switches will just return the process number.
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