Re: [PLUG] can i fork a process in the bash shell?

[Fred K Ollinger <follinge@sas.upenn.edu>]

> 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.

OK, you can do something like: rm -rf /path/to/evildir &

Then interact, finally do a while (! `ps aux | grep "rm -rvf
/path/to/evildir")
do
#do nothing
done

#stuff to do when evil dir is gone

You need to figure out exact syntax b/c my bash is rusty since I learned
perl.

good luck,

Fred


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