Re: Detach and reattach to shell command
Re: Detach and reattach to shell command
- Subject: Re: Detach and reattach to shell command
- From: Reinhold Penner <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 13:26:34 -1000
Hey Steve,
On Friday, August 9, 2002, at 12:47 PM, garbanzito wrote:
at 2002 08 09, 07:00 -1000, they whom i call Reinhold Penner wrote:
Is there any other way to monitor the state of a detached shell
command? Maybe some variable I can access? Or any other method of
detecting when a file has been downloaded completely?
one solution would be to follow your shell command with a
command that set a semaphore of some sort, putting both in
the background together.. this example uses a file as a
semaphore, though i realize that is ugly:
No, not so ugly. It's brilliant, I can work with that. Thanks.
-Reinhold
-- steve harley
P.S.: Whatever happened to Cockney Rebel? ;-)
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