From: Corey Jewett <corey@...>
Date: 2005-10-17T15:38:31+09:00
Subject: Re: starting a process after the previous one is done

I'm a complete noob too, but can't you just:

#!/usr/local/bin/ruby -W

print "Start\n"
system("ls -lrt /home/xyz > 1f")
system("touch 1f_after")

Corey


On Oct 16, 2005, at 23:31, Partha wrote:

> I am a RUBY NUBY.
>
> Was trying to use ruby to automate a set of tasks.
> In trying to do so I need  process2 to start only after process1 is
> done.
> I am using a code similar to below, but does not seem to work.
>
> I want the process 1f_after to execute after the exec command is done.
> So I would expect that the time stamp of "1f_after" is later than the
> time stamp of "1f" but does not happen so.
>
> How could I do this?
> (process2 & process1 are not necessarily system commands I am trying to
> executea part of a cad tool in process1 & 2)
>
> Thankyou,
> Partha
>
>
>
> #!/usr/local/bin/ruby -W
>
> print "Start\n"
> exec("ls -lrt /home/xyz > 1f") if fork == nil
> Process.wait
> system("touch 1f_after")
>
>