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[leke]

I wanted to automate a fairly long shell script process that kind of falls in to a listening state and then would need to open another window and execute another command. Problem is, I don't know how to run other commands after that state is reached.

Any tips?
Thanks.

Here is the script if you are interested...

[nelz]

You could use a fifo, which works rather like a pipe but looks like a file. Something like

[leke]

Thanks. I've still trying to understand how it works, but thanks for the info I'll do some googling on the subject
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I codes here: http://notsure.tk