Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com> List-Archive: <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/> List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/#faqs> Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <F76C9B2DA2FC4C4CA0A18E288BBCBCF7082177E9@nihexchange24.nih.gov> From: "Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID)" <BBuchbinder AT niaid DOT nih DOT gov> To: "'Thomas L Roche'" <tlroche AT us DOT ibm DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: RE: [OT?] make bash script wait for called program to finish? Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 18:56:47 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-IsSubscribed: yes How about the following? $ cmd /c start /wait program_being_waited_for -----Original Message----- From: Thomas L Roche Sent: Sunday, April 18, 2004 6:20 PM To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: [OT?] make bash script wait for called program to finish? How to make a bash script wait for a program that it calls to finish? Why I ask: Don't ask me why this process is structured this way, but, in order to install some code that I need in order to test my code, I hafta a wget an (executable) extractor and some (non-executable) binaries b run the extractor on the binaries. This runs some InstallShield UI that no one I know seems to know how to script. This creates an installer and a set of disk images. c run the installer on the images. Fortunately this part I know how to script. What I'd really like to do is script the whole thing, because each step takes about 30 min, but step b eludes me. So what I'd like my script to do is 0 wget 1 launch the extractor UI, which I will briefly twiddle 2 wait for the extractor to finish 3 check that the installer and images were created 4 run the installer on the images I know how to script everything but 2: how can I do that? Apologies if this is a FAQ: if so, please pass a pointer. If possible please post to me as well as the list, and TIA. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/