Watch for a particular pid and execute the command when the given process terminates. Useful when used together with notification system. $ ./waitforit.sh [PID] [CMD]

waitforit.sh

#!/bin/bash

delay=5
pid=$1
cmd=$2

status="0"
while [ "$status" == "0" ]
do
sleep $delay
ps -p$pid 2>&1 > /dev/null
status=$?
done

#The process has started, do something here
$cmd