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Posts tagged with “pid”

Wait for a unix process to finish

20 Mar 2013
bash pid unix

I sometimes find myself in the situation where I have a command running in my terminal, and want to run another command only after the first has finished. I’m pretty forgetful, so I don’t want to come back later and start the new command.

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Finding the process ID (PID) of a command in unix

20 Mar 2013
bash pid unix

Getting the PID of a running command is something I do daily, particularly by grepping on the name, e.g.:

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