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Old 08-09-2011
need to wait until Text Editor is closed
Hi,

I am writing an SH script where I need to open text editor from within the script and wait until the user closed or quit text editor. And then execute consecutive commands.

Here is a very simplified example:

gedit data.txt
# ---- wait until Text editor is exited
echo "Text Editor is exited"

Any ideas?
# 2  
Old 08-09-2011
Code:
#!/bin/bash

if [[ -z $(pidof gedit) ]] ;
then
do something (T)
else
do something else (F)
fi

other more elegant solutions may be presented. I'm just a hack. Smilie
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