From: Anthony R Fletcher <arif@mail.nih.gov>
To: <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: wait for the next process to finish
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 10:46:01 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111212154601.GA5198@cosy.cit.nih.gov> (raw)
I just realised that the 'wait' command will either wait for specified
jobs or all jobs and nothing in between. The manual says "If job is not
given then all currently active child processes are waited for.".
So
sleep 30 &
sleep 10 &
sleep 30 &
sleep 30 &
wait
waits for all the sleeps to finish.
How can I wait for just the next job to finish?
Anthony.
next reply other threads:[~2011-12-12 15:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-12 15:46 Anthony R Fletcher [this message]
2011-12-12 16:37 ` TJ Luoma
2011-12-12 19:41 ` Wayne Davison
2011-12-13 7:15 ` Martin Richter
2011-12-13 16:07 ` Rory Mulvaney
2011-12-13 16:45 ` Jérémie Roquet
2011-12-13 16:59 ` Anthony R Fletcher
2011-12-13 18:08 ` Daniel Shahaf
2011-12-13 16:49 ` Christoph (Stucki) von Stuckrad
2011-12-13 17:31 ` Bart Schaefer
2011-12-13 17:04 ` Rory Mulvaney
2011-12-13 17:32 ` Anthony R Fletcher
2011-12-13 18:04 ` Jérémie Roquet
2011-12-13 18:20 ` Stephane Chazelas
2011-12-13 19:19 ` Anthony R Fletcher
2011-12-13 10:01 ` Peter Stephenson
2011-12-13 17:10 ` Bart Schaefer
2011-12-13 20:42 ` Rory Mulvaney
2011-12-13 17:45 ` Stephane Chazelas
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