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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting check/wait for files to exist before continuing Post 302260483 by alternapop on Thursday 20th of November 2008 04:48:37 PM
Old 11-20-2008
check/wait for files to exist before continuing

I'm attempting to write a pretty simple script. It opens a Filemaker file successfully. That Filemaker file takes around 30-90 seconds to finish. When it's done, it writes a few .xml files into the same directory where my shell script and the Filemaker script reside.

In my script, how can I loop/wait until the Filemaker process is finished? Basically loop until the .xml files are created, then continue.

I've tried a couple of things and searched for solutions but can't get it to wait...

Code:
# -----
open fmp_file.fp7



Thanks!
 

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