execute command after process terminates in different shell
I am running a command that's processing some data in one shell window (let's say it has pid 200). Unfortunately I forgot to add the & to run it in the background.
I need to run some analysis script after pid 200 is finished. I thought I could just open up another shell window and do
wait 200; ./myanalysis.sh
But it complains to me
"-bash: wait: pid 200 is not a child of this shell"
With that in mind, is there a way I can execute my analysis script automatically after this process terminates?
You can't "wait" for non-child processes, and you have to manually check it periodically. See for example this stack overflow answer.
Can you use ^z and then do the following?
wait 200; ./myanalysis.sh&
fg %1
This will wait till pid 200
is finished, then run your analysis, and then will put itself in foreground.