Waiting for a process to die

[Chris Rees]

2009/5/31 Kelly Jones <kelly.terry.jones at gmail.com>:
> How do I wait for a specific process to die? I want to do something like:
>
> waitpid 1234&&(echo "done!" | Mail -s "PROC DONE" kelly.terry.jones at gmail.com)
>
> I'm sure this is trivial, but I can't find a way to do it.
>
> I wrote a Perl script that checks every second if /proc/pid exists,
> but that only works if /proc is mounted + I'm now on VMs which can't
> easily mount /proc
>
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[ `ps ax |grep pid | wc -l ` = 1 ] && (echo "done!" | Mail -s "PROC
DONE" kelly.terry.jones at gmail.com)

Chris

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