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How can I launch a program from a bash XTerm and run a while loop at the same time? (self.linux)

submitted 10 months ago by j4k3 to c/[email protected]

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I want to launch Oobabooga Textgen WebUI from the command line with its serial output. I also want to run a while loop that retrieves the Nvidia GPU memory available and temperature for display on the header bar with a 5 second sleep delay. How do I run both of those at the same time?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

You probably want to make a launcher script. An easy start would be to background your main process and route the output wherever you want. Run your monitor loop and send the output wherever you want. Then you can examine and kill the main background pid on script exit. The simplest way in bash might be something like kill $(jobs -p)

This can get a bit more complicated if you want it all to exit if anything fails or something like that. Read up on pkill, disown, kill, $$, trap…tons of possibilities

Some of these things aren’t very portable though, so do check if you decide to switch shells….or do what the rest of us do and scratch your head for an hour before cussing ourselves for not being posix compliant, swear we will next time, then don’t