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This demonstrates how a bash script can invoke a child process to do some work asynchronously and monitor for finish
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bash-async.sh
#!/bin/bash
mycommand &
child_pid=$!
while kill -0 $child_pid >/dev/null 2>&1; do
echo "Child process is still running"
sleep 1
done
echo "Child process has finished"
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