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How to wait for a subprocess used for I/O redirection?

Consider the following snippet of Bash script: exec 3> >(sleep 1; echo "$BASHPID: here") do-something-interesting exec 3>&- wait $! echo "$BASHPID: there" When executed, it produces: ...
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Is there a way to temporarily change the terminal colour?

I use the gnome-terminal and most of my editors with a white on black theme as I find its easier on the eyes. One of my labs requires screenshots of the terminal (with the process) to be submitted ...
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How to ensure a process has started reading a file before continuing?

I'm trying to write a command to test that data is written to a file. My first approach was: Start reading in the background. Write some data to the file. Wait for the reader to find a result. ...
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Bash script needed to run every second

I have a few cleanup commands to run for my datacaching scheme. I was thinking a bash script would be an easy way to check if the full clean up job needed to be run. But the cache is very time ...
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How does sh -e interact with &?

I'm using sh (dash) on Ubuntu (lucid) and the manpage has this to say about -e: -e errexit If not interactive, exit immediately if any untested command fails. ...
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How to recover a backgrounded job from a previous shell? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How can I disown a running process and associate it to a new screen shell? I launched a command that lasts a long time. I had to disconnect so I moved it in the ...
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Bash wait for jobs and limit job count [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Four tasks in parallel… how do I do that? Suppose a loop invoking a command grep -v '#' < files.m3u | sed 's/\\\\/\/\//g' | sed 's/\\/\//g' | while read line ...
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How to do nothing forever in an elegant way?

I have a program which produces useful information on stdout but also reads from stdin. I want to redirect its standard output to a file without providing anything on standard input. So far, so good: ...
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Can I make “There are stopped jobs” harder to kill?

Typical scenario: I temporarily need to access a file that my vhost prevents me from accessing. I fire up vim, edit the settings and background vim to tell apache to reload its configuration. ...
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How to make a program which run from shell still live after close terminal? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How do I prevent a script from terminating when the shell exits? I use gnome-terminal, and I run emacs under the terminal in the background by executing emacs &, but ...
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Is it possible to customise the prompt to show the if there are any background jobs?

Is it possible to customise the bash prompt to show the if there are any background jobs? I find it easy to forget that there are background jobs. Say if the prompt was... $ Is there a way to ...
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Running piped bash script in background

I'm attempting to build a monitoring script to watch localhost communication using netcat. I have two scripts that I've built, one to start the monitoring loop and one for the loop itself. They are as ...
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any way to un-disown / re-attach an interactive process to the tty? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How can I disown a running process and associate it to a new screen shell? In bash is there an opposite of disown, that is, to re-attach a process I've accidentally ...
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What happens when you background a function which calls another function?

Question says it all on the tin. Can someone explain to me what goes on here ? I'm trying to find out how to background a process in a script that calls another function and reliably terminate it when ...
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Whenever I type some wrong command, my terminal tries to run that command in the background

Something strange started happening to my terminal. Whenever I type some wrong command it tries to run that command in the background. hegeek@colinux: ~# l [9]+ Stopped l thegeek@colinux: ~# ...