How to wait for the subprocess to finish in tcl


 
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Old 03-26-2008
Question How to wait for the subprocess to finish in tcl

Hi All

Here i have a piece of code,

set filename "./GopiRun.sh"
[exec $filename & ]
#I need to wait here until the GopiRun.sh is completed how do i achive this
exit.
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Old 03-26-2008
See the man page for wait
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