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7 months ago

in A simple script that waits for a process to complete and then executes a command | Bourne shell scripting | Tech-Recipes on Tech-Recipes
This is very intriguing, but I wonder why you didn't use the wait command?

$ date ; sleep 30 &
Sat Nov 29 12:53:58 CST 2008
[1] 7695
$ wait %1
$

Simple.

1 year ago

in Innovation 101: reCaptcha on LifeDev
Actually, this was reported in a recent Wired article as well:

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/15-07/...

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