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How to know end of background process



The 2019 Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results Are InHow to suspend and bring a background process to foregroundHow to know if a background job is finished?How can a background process know its own PID?Send process to background using PIDHow do I get the pid of a process run in background?can't capture PID from background process started in a sub-shell that's running in a heredoc passed to `sudo su`Log background jobs started in all the manually started shells?run another process after the background process is completeHow to background a process when tmux prefix is z?Bash - Execute background process whilst reading output



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  • Why do you need to switch to another console to check? when it's running in background you still have command line if there is no process is running in foreground. also another command is jobs that was mentioned in now deleted answer!

    – αғsнιη
    2 days ago












  • Do you just want to know when it completes? The shell would usually inform you about completing background tasks. What's the issue you are having?

    – Kusalananda
    2 days ago











  • I need to know the completion to trigger execution of another program based on the output of this script.

    – kris
    yesterday

















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I have a script running in background



./test.sh &


How can I know the completion of test.sh. I have to check the process id from an another console. Is there any another way










share|improve this question






















  • Why do you need to switch to another console to check? when it's running in background you still have command line if there is no process is running in foreground. also another command is jobs that was mentioned in now deleted answer!

    – αғsнιη
    2 days ago












  • Do you just want to know when it completes? The shell would usually inform you about completing background tasks. What's the issue you are having?

    – Kusalananda
    2 days ago











  • I need to know the completion to trigger execution of another program based on the output of this script.

    – kris
    yesterday













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I have a script running in background



./test.sh &


How can I know the completion of test.sh. I have to check the process id from an another console. Is there any another way










share|improve this question














I have a script running in background



./test.sh &


How can I know the completion of test.sh. I have to check the process id from an another console. Is there any another way







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  • Why do you need to switch to another console to check? when it's running in background you still have command line if there is no process is running in foreground. also another command is jobs that was mentioned in now deleted answer!

    – αғsнιη
    2 days ago












  • Do you just want to know when it completes? The shell would usually inform you about completing background tasks. What's the issue you are having?

    – Kusalananda
    2 days ago











  • I need to know the completion to trigger execution of another program based on the output of this script.

    – kris
    yesterday

















  • Why do you need to switch to another console to check? when it's running in background you still have command line if there is no process is running in foreground. also another command is jobs that was mentioned in now deleted answer!

    – αғsнιη
    2 days ago












  • Do you just want to know when it completes? The shell would usually inform you about completing background tasks. What's the issue you are having?

    – Kusalananda
    2 days ago











  • I need to know the completion to trigger execution of another program based on the output of this script.

    – kris
    yesterday
















Why do you need to switch to another console to check? when it's running in background you still have command line if there is no process is running in foreground. also another command is jobs that was mentioned in now deleted answer!

– αғsнιη
2 days ago






Why do you need to switch to another console to check? when it's running in background you still have command line if there is no process is running in foreground. also another command is jobs that was mentioned in now deleted answer!

– αғsнιη
2 days ago














Do you just want to know when it completes? The shell would usually inform you about completing background tasks. What's the issue you are having?

– Kusalananda
2 days ago





Do you just want to know when it completes? The shell would usually inform you about completing background tasks. What's the issue you are having?

– Kusalananda
2 days ago













I need to know the completion to trigger execution of another program based on the output of this script.

– kris
yesterday





I need to know the completion to trigger execution of another program based on the output of this script.

– kris
yesterday










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