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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Breaking "while read" also breaks the parent process Post 302437740 by chebarbudo on Friday 16th of July 2010 04:13:14 AM
Old 07-16-2010
Question Breaking "while read" also breaks the parent process

Hi,

I'm a bit confused. Maybe some master can explain to me what is happening.

I have a program that starts issuing output about himself loading.
I want to run it in another thread but I want to wait untill it's fully loaded.

Program sample:
Code:
$ cat myprogram
echo "loading"
echo "almost ready"
echo "up and running"
while true; do
    echo "I don't care about the rest of the output"
    sleep 1
done

If I run it like this, it will stay in another thread but I will not be sure it is "up and running":
Code:
$ myprogram &

So I tried to run it like this but the process dies very soon :
Code:
$ myprogram | while read -r; do
    [[ "$REPLY" == "up and running" ]] && break
done
echo "Now I know myprogram went all the way untill it is up and running"
echo "But now myprogram is dead :-("

Question: How can I stat myprogram and wait untill it outputs "up and running"?

Thanks for your help.
Santiago
 

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round - Rounds a float

SYNOPSIS
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+--------+---------------------------------------------------+ |Version | | | | | | | Description | | | | +--------+---------------------------------------------------+ | 5.3.0 | | | | | | | The $mode parameter was introduced. | | | | | 5.2.7 | | | | | | | The inner workings of round(3) was changed to | | | conform to the C99 standard. | | | | +--------+---------------------------------------------------+ SEE ALSO
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