[ILUG] [OT?] batch jobs query

[Donncha O Caoimh]

Presumably the programs you call go into the background when you run
them..
I'd check ps auxw (or ps -ef, or whatever) and grep it for the process..
then continue when it disappeared.

Donncha.

michael conry wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> this is a unix rather than linux query, not sure if that is quite on
> topic. If I have a batch file set up to run a number of programs (or a
> program a number of times), how do i set it so that the lines are
> executed sequentially (by which i mean, that line two is not executed
> until processes arising from line one have completed). The need to do
> this arises out of problems with licensed software and its internal
> queuing (which i do not have access to).