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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Parent/child Korn shell script help Post 302192311 by jim mcnamara on Tuesday 6th of May 2008 05:09:55 PM
Old 05-06-2008
Put the wait in SHELL1
Code:
#!/usr/bin/ksh
nohup sas /abc/123/sasprogram1.sas &
wait


#!/usr/bin/ksh
./SHELL1.ksh
nohup sas /abc/123/sasprogram2.sas &

 

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suspend(1)							   User Commands							suspend(1)

NAME
suspend - shell built-in function to halt the current shell SYNOPSIS
sh suspend csh suspend ksh suspend DESCRIPTION
sh Stops the execution of the current shell (but not if it is the login shell). csh Stop the shell in its tracks, much as if it had been sent a stop signal with ^Z. This is most often used to stop shells started by su. ksh Stops the execution of the current shell (but not if it is the login shell). ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWcsu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
csh(1), kill(1), ksh(1), sh(1), su(1M), attributes(5) SunOS 5.10 15 Apr 1994 suspend(1)
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