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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to make the parent process to wait for the child process Post 302355237 by sennidurai on Tuesday 22nd of September 2009 06:26:26 AM
Old 09-22-2009
yes it will help, our script is running in production and we dont have the permission to edit the second script (ie. C program). we have to achieve this thru first script only.

Is there any other way to do this.

Thanks,
Sennidurai.
 

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DPATCH(7)							      dpatch								 DPATCH(7)

NAME

       debian/patches/script.dpatch - self applying patch

SYNOPSIS

       debian/patches/script.dpatch -patch [directory]
       debian/patches/script.dpatch -unpatch [directory]
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DESCRIPTION

       A  dpatch is a program that modifies the source tree in a given directory. How it does that is entirely up to the person writing it. It can
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