Let's imagine I have a client
and a server
on the same machine, and I'd like to script some interaction between them.
I would really like a shell script to –
- Start
server
- Put
server
in the background - Start
client
- (wait for
client
to do whatever it does) - Stop
server
I can do most of that already, like this –
./server &
./client
But that leaves server
running after the script finishes which, apart from anything else, is very untidy.
What can I do?
Best Answer
You can use bash job control:
Be sure to put the
#!/bin/bash
at the beginning of the script so that bash is used to execute the script (I'm not sure if job control is supported in sh, please correct me if it does).