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nganju
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#1 Unread post by nganju »

Hello-
I am running on a dual-processor Linux desktop, and I want to have a simple shell script command that recognizes when the oceanO process ends, and invokes a command to start another run. I am not very familiar with linux-type commands, so any help is appreciated, thanks in advance...

mathieu
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#2 Unread post by mathieu »

To run several command in sequence do

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./FirstCommand && ./SecondCommand && ./ThirdCommand
The advantage is that if an error occurs, then all stops.

When things become more complicate, you create a file, say, ListComm

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#!/bin/sh
./firstCommand
./SecondCommand
you put it as executable with

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chmod +x ListComm
and you execute it by

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./ListComm
Then if you want to run things in the background you can use screen
but screen is not systematically installed and it needs root rights to be installed.

nganju
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#3 Unread post by nganju »

thanks for the advice, that is exactly what i needed...

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