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How to know if a background job is finished?

I invoke a script (do_something) in background via another script (do_manythings) as below. nohup do_something & How would I know in the parent script (do_manythings) that the job invoked ...
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Running multiple nohup commands in background

Got two commands cmd1 and cmd2. Of the two, cmd2 takes longer to finish. Need to run cmd2 and then cmd1. Tried to run them in following way: bash$ (nohup ./cmd2>result2 &) && nohup ...
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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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Application in terminal still running but not directly accessible [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How to suspend and bring a background process to foreground I have kind of an odd problem which I haven't encountered before. Here's what I did: I started an ...
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What's the difference between running a program as a daemon and forking it into background with '&'?

What are the practical differences from a sysadmin point of view when deploying services on a unix based system?
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How to reload a background process?

I have a python script which I would like to run in the background. So I do this: $ nohup python script.py & If I am frequently making changes to the script, I need to terminate the process ...
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Enter process running in background/bring to foreground [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How can I disown it a running process and associate it to a new screen shell? I started a java client using nohup to get it to run in the background (needed to log out ...
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How can I close a terminal without killing the command running in it?

Sometimes I want to start a process and forget about it. If I start it from the command line, like this: redshift I can't close the terminal, or it will kill the process. Can I run a command in ...