This reference was very interesting for my purposes. http://mywiki.wooledge.org/ProcessManagement#advanced
I can achieve it with: jobpid=$! and wait $jobpid -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Is-there-any-mutex-semaphore-mechanism-in-shell-scripts--tp23641994p23658836.html Sent from the Gnu - Bash mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
