Hi, I'm trying to do something as simple as this: "sleep 10; mail -s "test" dans < communicate_with_process &"
which executes immediately because it is backgrounded with "&". or more generically in english: "do some long process in the background; send me mail when it's done; allow me to quit the tool that started launched the long process." I've found several examples that are close but none of the permeatations I try work. The closest examples I've found start sending signals to processes and/or callbacks and 50+ lines of python code. I found the cliUtils module which came close.. but no cigar. I find it hard to believe that a one liner in bash/tcsh has to end up being many lines in python. That makes me think I'm missing something. Surely thousands of people have done this before -- start a background process and want notification when it's done. Anybody have any suggestions on modules to try or quick subprocess commands that work? This came close http://docs.python.org/library/subprocess.html#replacing-shell-pipeline but no cigar too. Thank you so much for any help or suggestions. -d -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Background-subprocess-help--tp23680206p23680206.html Sent from the Python - python-list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list