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1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hello all,
I have a very basic question. I have a requirement where in, I have a main process which forks a child process, which execs and runs a c executable corresponding to a daemon. In the c executable corresponding to a daemon, as everyone does, I fork another child process, and as part of... (7 Replies)
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I am facing a strange issue,
when i call a script from my while loop in background it doesnt go in background, despite the wait i put below the whil loop it goes forward even before the process put in background is completed.
cat abc.txt | while read -u4 line
do
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hey all,
I want to automate tarring a directory then using ftp to transfer the files over.
I was able to put the commands together but what I'm noticing is that only the very first file is being tarred and then transferred.
tar cvpf new.backup sourceAbove is the command I'm using which works... (4 Replies)
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have the shell script to call a Perl routine and pass the Informatica WorkFlow name to it. Jobs in each group executes in background do not seem to wait at all. How do I make it to WAIT for the prior group to complete before execute the next group of jobs?
Sample of the jobs flow:
{
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all,
I have a shell that kicks off several sub-shells and make them run parallelly, like:
shell1.sh &
shell2.sh &
shell2.sh &
...
However, since all sub-shells run parallely, the parent shell finished right after it's submitted, like:
$ parent.sh &
$ + Done parant.sh &
$
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I am new this forum. I request you peoples help in understanding and finding some solution to my problem.
Here it goes:
I need to perform this set of actions by writing a shell script. I need to read a config file for the bunch of processes to execute.
I need to fecth the pid of... (4 Replies)
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7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hello,
I have a script that needs to wait till the previous process is done within the same script.But my script doesnt wait till that it is done.Can anyone suggest how I can stop my process till the previous task is done.
I tried 'wait' but I dont have a static process id so is there... (2 Replies)
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Did not use 'wait' yet.
How I understand by now the wait works only for child processes, started background.
Is there any other way to watch completion of any, not related process (at least, a process, owned by the same user?)
I need to start a background process, witch will be waiting... (2 Replies)
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All
Here i have a piece of code,
set filename "./GopiRun.sh"
#I need to wait here until the GopiRun.sh is completed how do i achive this
exit. (1 Reply)
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi
I am creating 3 background processes in my shell script using &.
I have obtained the 3 PIDs of the background processes using $!.
I need to wait for these to complete and i need the exit status of each of these.
If i use :
wait $PID1
wait $PID2
wait $PID3
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