[colug-432] Scripting

[pat at linuxcolumbus.com]

find the pids of your background jobs and see if they are still alive I 
would guess.

On 2019-05-19 09:56, Vince Herried wrote:
> I wrote a script to download a couple of files .bz2 files from the
> internet.
> then I need to send a copy to another machine in my LAN and uncompress
> them.
> 
> So I thought to add the copy to the other machine with scp.
> I want to make the scp asynchronous.  But how do I alert myself when
> the async scp is done?
> 
> in pigeon something like this is going on.
> 
> 0. if new version of file A
> 
> 1. then  download from internet
> 
> 2. Wait for download to complete
> 
> 3. start async scp to other host in my LAN
> 
>    scp file?.bz2 otherhost:/dir &
> 
> 4. check new version of file B, if found repeat steps 1 - 3 above with
> file B
> 
> 5. wait for all async to complete.
> 6. unzip the files and remove the compressed versions.
> 
> So How do I perform step 5?
> 
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