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How to tell PowerShell to wait for each command to end before starting the next?

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I have a PowerShell 1.0 script to just open a bunch of applications. The first is a virtual machine and the others are development applications. I want the virtual machine to finish booting before the rest of the applications are opened. In bash I could just say “cmd1 && cmd2” This is what I’ve got… … Read more

Why must wait() always be in synchronized block

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We all know that in order to invoke Object.wait(), this call must be placed in synchronized block, otherwise an IllegalMonitorStateException is thrown. But what’s the reason for making this restriction? I know that wait() releases the monitor, but why do we need to explicitly acquire the monitor by making particular block synchronized and then release … Read more

JavaScript sleep/wait before continuing [duplicate]

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This question already has answers here: What is the JavaScript version of sleep()? (88 answers) Closed 8 years ago. I have a JavaScript code that I need to add a sleep/wait function to. The code I am running is already in a function, eg: function myFunction(time) { alert(‘time starts now’); //code to make the program … Read more

How to wait in bash for several subprocesses to finish, and return exit code !=0 when any subprocess ends with code !=0?

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How to wait in a bash script for several subprocesses spawned from that script to finish, and then return exit code !=0 when any of the subprocesses ends with code !=0? Simple script: #!/bin/bash for i in `seq 0 9`; do doCalculations $i & done wait The above script will wait for all 10 spawned … Read more