On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 01:15:11PM +0000, Christopher Egner wrote: > You could use && or ||. > && works only if the return is zero, usually meaning everything worked > in the first program. The second, || only works if the return is non > zero.
You guys aren't getting it... the command is already running. He's thinking along the lines of this: "Okay, I'm downloading this file, it's not resumable and already at 60%. It'll take a few hours more to download and quite a while to untar it. I'm going to sleep now... I wish I could tell it to untar once it's done downloading. Too bad I can't start over without losing all the progress it already made." As for the solution - I got nothing concrete, but here's my idea: Figure out the PID of the process you want to be finished. Then create a script that loops while the PID is existant, and once it's not - does whatever it is that you want to do. Actually, that would be a one-liner. Here's my idea: First, get the PID using pidof. I'll call it $THE_PID Then what you need is this: $ while [ -e /proc/$THE_PID ]; do; sleep 5; done && echo "Process exited" Of course, you change the echo command to whatever you want. There might be a better way to do this, I usually such at shell-fu, and the only thing I know about /proc is that if a process is running, it's PID is there. :) , but I'm not sure ho -- Tactless "If it wasn't for fog, the world would run at a really crappy framerate." This is a .signature virus! Please copy me into your .signature. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
