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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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nohup vs. Screen
In the past, I've used nohup to run big background jobs, but I've noticed that a lot of people use Screen in this context. Does Screen provide some kind of functional advantage that I am unaware of, ...
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Execute Nohup command with input
In UNIX, I have a process that I want to run using nohup. However this process will at some point wait at a prompt where I have to enter yes or no for it to continue. So far, in UNIX I have been doing ...
