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Just annotations of little "how to's", so I know I can find how to do something I've already done when I need to do it again, in case I don't remember anymore, which is not unlikely. Hopefully they can be useful to others, but I can't guarantee that it will work, or that it won't even make things worse.
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Rough script that waits until processes finish their businesses, then exit

Posted 06-15-2015 at 04:17 PM by the dsc (linux-related notes)
The processes are given as a single variable, thus one must use quotes if there's more than one process to wait for.

Usage example:

./waitprocs "lame avconv sox tar" && self-destruct

My previous attempt with a "counting" system didn't work, so I've tried a different approach. For any given process, it will check if it's running, if it is, it creates a temporary file with its name on a temporary work folder; if it isn't, it...
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