Add-on: [CS-FSLUG] Alarm for command-line processes?

Jukka Y mail at ylonen.info
Sat May 8 02:14:47 CDT 2004


This is the script that I use. Is there something (that I could add into it) 
to get "alarm" after it finishes:

(script is in single line)
for i in *jpg;do export i=`echo $i|perl -e '<> =~ /^(.+)\./; print "$1
\n";'`;echo "converting $i"; convert $i.jpg $i.pnm; rm $i.jpg; c44 $i.pnm 
$i.djvu; rm $i.pnm ; done

Blessings,
Jukka

On Saturday 08 May 2004 09:16, Jukka Y wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I am running a short script that converts graphics files to another format.
> Job is quite time consuming (alltogether 4,5 Gb divided in several folders)
> and script cannot do conversion recursively. What programs/options should I
> use to set a visual (or sound-) alarm to inform me when command-line
> process stops?
>
> Jukka





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