[ale] Quick script question

[ale at politicalpurpose.com (Douglas Bridges)]

The PID=$! and wait command were the trick.  It took some judicious use of the 
sleep command to let everything clean up good, but that did it.

Thanks!

On Monday 03 March 2003 10:59 pm, Danny Cox wrote:
>
> 	How about:
>
> 	$ARGS="some args"
> 	while :		# always true
> 	do
> 		gui_start_proggy $ARGS &
> 		PID=$!
> 		sleep 3		# sleep 2 may only get you 1.1 secs
> 		if [ -d /proc/$PID ]
> 		then
> 			exit	# GUI started
> 		else
> 			wait $PID	# reap the child
> 			ARGS=$(permute $ARGS)
> 		fi
> 	done
>
> or something like that. ;-)

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