How about: FD=3 exec $FD< <(nohup ./vm.sh Pharo.image st doStuffAndSave.st) read -n 1 -u $FD echo $REPLY exec $FD<&- runs image in background, reads one character from it's output, and output's it. Will close the $FD (file descriptor at the end) See: http://wiki.bash-hackers.org/commands/builtin/read http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=979694 Works probably with a cygwin bash, too. On 15 Nov 2012, at 16:45, Bruni camillo wrote:
./vm.sh Pharo.image st doStuffAndSave.st; ./vm.sh Pharo.image & # relaunch and fork to background ./doStuffAfter.sh
but yeah, that violates your not-image-stop requirement :)
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