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July 25, 2014 00:49
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Bash script to watch a process and notify you with a text when it is no longer running
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| #!/bin/bash | |
| # | |
| # Watchdog watches a process passed in as the first argument waits until | |
| # it finishes and then sends a text message to the number provided. | |
| # | |
| PID=$1 | |
| NUMBER=$2 | |
| MESSAGE=$3 | |
| while kill -0 $PID 2> /dev/null; do | |
| sleep 10 | |
| done | |
| curl http://textbelt.com/text -d number=$NUMBER -d message="$MESSAGE" |
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Example usage: ./watchdog.sh 4725 5555555555 "Process done."