On Thursday 20 May 2010, you wrote: > Nothing happens until you exit Firefox ... > > [1]+ Done coproc FIREFOX ( firefox ) > Good > > I haven't tried hooking up to the stdin and stdout of a coprocess yes, > but that's what the FIREFOX[0] and [1] file descriptors are for, > apparently. See man bash. > > Douglas. >
The wait builtin command seems to acting as specified, in that it is waiting for a process to terminate and then reporting the termination status. Cheers Ross Drummond
