I'm having trouble with part of this bash script in Linux where I respawn a new instance of script and kill the old one to prevent forking (Yes, I know 'exec' will not fork but this needs to be interactive) When the old instance is kill it pops up "Terminated!" in the middle of the new instance that's running. I've seen a lot of suggestions to answer this here but either I'm not doing it right, or they're all wrong.
Here's the problematic part of the code:
Any help much appreciated!
Hi,
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Hi All
this is a simple script
#! /bin/bash
FileCnt=`ls -lrt $DIR/* | wc -l`
echo $FileCnt
how could i escape the error msg if there are no files in $DIR
ls: /home/sayantan/test/files/cnt/*: No such file or directory
0
Looking forward for a quick reply
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1 parent
2 children
child1
child2
In the code below the 2 child processes fire almost Instantaneously in
the background, Is that possible to know the status of pass/fail of each
process... (12 Replies)
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ls -latr
echo
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if ; then
pdir=$p1
echo current directory $pdir
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echo
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