How to be notified when a script's background job completes?
- by Keith Bentrup
My question is very similar to this one except that my background process was started from a script. I could be doing something wrong but when I try this simple example:
#!/bin/bash
set -mb # enable job control and notification
sleep 5 &
I never receive notification when the sleep background command finishes. However, if I execute the same directly in the terminal,
$ set -mb
$ sleep 5 &
[1]+ Done sleep 5
I see the output that I expect.
I'm using bash on cygwin. I'm guessing that it might have something to do with where the output is directed, but trying various output redirection, I'm not getting any closer?
