| Jeff Abrahamson on Sun, 12 May 2002 11:50:16 +0200 |
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On Sat, May 11, 2002 at 01:43:50PM -0400, Nick Rongione wrote:
> Specifically, I want to kick off a delete of a huge directory and in
> the mean time interact with the user a bit more. Only when i know the
> delete is complete I want to continue doing the rest of the script
> actions.
>
> I don't know how to pull that off in bash. Any help would be appreciated.
Fred proposed looping on a ps, which would surely work.
You might also do something like the following:
tmp=/tmp/foo.$$.`date +%Y%m%d%H%M%s`
rm -rf $dir $tmp &
do_stuff
while [ -r $tmp ]; do sleep 1; done
do_more_stuff
The rm will remove the directory first, then move on to its second
argument. This may not be entirely portable, as some rm implementation
somewhere may just perversely unlink its arguments in reverse order.
--
Jeff
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