I have the following.

1. A Java process writing logs to the stdout
2. A shell script starting the Java process
3. Another shell script which executes the previous one and redirects the log
4. I check the log file with the tail -f command for the success message.

Even if I have exit 0 in the code I cannot end the tail -f process.

Which doesn't let my script to finish. Is there any other way of doing this in Bash?

The code looks like the following.

function startServer() {
  touch logfile
  startJavaprocess > logfile &

  tail -f logfile | while read line 
  do
    if echo $line | grep -q 'Started'; then
      echo 'Server Started'
      exit 0
    fi
  done
}