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Reputation: 678

How to schedule commands to run after multiple non-child processes finish?

I sometimes launch long running tasks on my server and want the server to do something after those tasks finish (usually shut down). If there was only one task, I could simply type the next command into the window running the task, then bash will run it after the current one finishes. But what if there was multiple processes that I want to wait on?

In my workflow, the different tasks are running in different panes on tmux, so I cannot directly use wait since the processes I want to wait for are not child processes in one particular pane.

I have included a possible approach as an answer below.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 38

Answers (1)

LemmeTestThat
LemmeTestThat

Reputation: 678

This question's answer offers a related solution:

tail --pid=$pid -f /dev/null

However, that particular answer can only handle waiting for one process, but we can extend it using wait for multiple processes, then run our own command on completion:

tail --pid=$pid1 -f /dev/null &
tail --pid=$pid2 -f /dev/null &
tail --pid=$pid3 -f /dev/null &
tail --pid=$pid4 -f /dev/null &
wait; <your-command-here>

Upvotes: 1

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