From: TJ Luoma <luomat@gmail.com>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: wait for the next process to finish
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 11:37:11 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADjGqHsApV_7LcVxbz2Ngom8YArNMXr-eGKUjArjyyRz-N6u=A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111212154601.GA5198@cosy.cit.nih.gov>
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On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 10:46 AM, Anthony R Fletcher <arif@mail.nih.gov>wrote:
> 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?
>
Just don't run it in the background.
or do it like this:
(job1 ; job2)
or, if you want to make sure that job2 only runs if job1 succeeds:
(job1 && job2)
TjL
ps - my apologies if I am misunderstanding the question
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-12 17:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-12 15:46 Anthony R Fletcher
2011-12-12 16:37 ` TJ Luoma [this message]
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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