On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Mark Maiden wrote:
> Hi,
>> Could somebody point me in the right direction regarding writing a
> script that starts a process and then waits until that process goes into
> sleep mode before going on with the script.
>
Well, if you want to do stuff after kicking off the process and
before waiting for it to finish, you could try this
cmd &
waitpid=$!
do more stuff...
wait $waitpid
Good Luck,
Mark
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