Scott Gifford wrote: > Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <raju.mailingli...@gmail.com> writes: > > [...] > >> progc should to be launched only after both proga, progb are finished. >> progc takes another couple of hours to finish. >> >> What is good way to automate this problem (that is no manual >> interaction)? > > In a shell script, run proga and progb in the background, then wait > for them both with the "wait" builtin. Something like this: > > #!/bin/sh -e > # -e flag will abort on any error > proga & # Start proga in background > progb & # Start progb in background > wait # Wait for whichever finishes first > wait # Wait for the other one > progc # Now run progc in the foreground > > ----Scott.
This is great. A little perusal of 'man wait' gave me a better idea. nohup proga & pa=$! nohup progb & pb=$! wait $pa $pb nohup progc & Thanks a lot. Just what I am looking for. raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
