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Feb 062010
 

Wait for a process terminated

Answer:

wait command allow you to monitor the termination of a process and quit afterward.

It is very useful when you want to trigger some action when a particular process terminated.

E.g. Send an email when a long running process of PID 5870 terminated

#  wait 5870 && echo Finished | mail -s Task [email protected]

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