How to know a executable has finished his task

electroon · January 3, 2008, 9:32pm

Hi frnds,

I want to know is there a way by which we can know that a C++ executable has finished its job in shell script.

My task is as follows:

1.Shell script calls a executable

2.Executable executes and performs its job of generating some reports.

Now i want my shell script to detect this that is C++ executable has completed its job so that shell script can send the reports as attachement.

Please help me urgently on this

srage · January 3, 2008, 9:46pm

Perform a simple

ps -aef |grep [process name] |grep -v grep

If it doesn't return any data, process is finished.

porter · January 3, 2008, 10:23pm

electroon · January 4, 2008, 1:08am

Wat this done means

vino · January 4, 2008, 1:12am