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		teraflop on Aug 27, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ntfy: A utility for sending notifications Bash tip: you can schedule an arbitrary command to run when the current command completes by suspending it with CTRL-Z, and then typing "fg; <CMD>". (This doesn't seem to be documented specifically anywhwere, but it's implicit in the way bash's job control works.)

riquito on Aug 27, 2016 [–]

Which is identical to write "cmd; nextCommand"

E.g. sleep 2; echo it works

mynegation on Aug 27, 2016 | [–]

I think the point of the tip was to show how it is done when process is already running and you forgot to add a command to be run immediately after

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