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Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 20:31:57 -0400
To: Thomas L Roche <tlroche AT us DOT ibm DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: Larry Hall <cygwin-lh AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: [OT?] make bash script wait for called program to finish?
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At 08:01 PM 4/18/2004, you wrote:
>Tom Roche Sunday, April 18, 2004 6:20 PM
>>>> 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
>
>Barry Buchbinder Sun, 18 Apr 2004 18:56:47 -0400
>>> How about the following?
>>> $ cmd /c start /wait program_being_waited_for
>
>Thanks! I've never run windows' shell from bash, but that does the
>job.
>
>Larry Hall Sun, 18 Apr 2004 19:12:03 -0400
>> Should we assume that 'wait' didn't work for you?
>
>I didn't try that: doesn't 'wait' just wait for the given period
>(arg=n)? If so, that would be at best a kludge.

No.  'n' is a proc id.  See 'man bash'.  Barry's suggestion is likely to
be better though, considering that you're starting a Win32 process.


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