Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 12:42:37 -0700 From: Steven Schlansker <scs@eecs.berkeley.edu> To: utisoft@gmail.com Cc: Kelly Jones <kelly.terry.jones@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Waiting for a process to die Message-ID: <4A22DDAD.8070504@eecs.berkeley.edu> In-Reply-To: <b79ecaef0905311128v2e1921a8p30c6ead961759780@mail.gmail.com> References: <26face530905311117te38a4faya92733fbfebd9597@mail.gmail.com> <b79ecaef0905311128v2e1921a8p30c6ead961759780@mail.gmail.com>
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Chris Rees wrote:
> [ `ps ax |grep pid | wc -l ` = 1 ] && (echo "done!" | Mail -s "PROC
> DONE" kelly.terry.jones@gmail.com)
>
Not always going to work. For example,
[steven@scs:~]% ps ax | grep init
1 ? Ss 0:39 init [2]
13421 pts/1 R+ 0:00 grep init
Also if you use its pid, 1, you get a whole bunch of uninteresting
processes as you're grepping for "1" ;)
[steven@scs:~]% ps ax | grep 1 | wc -l
94
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