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From: Dave Gibson on 30 Jan 2010 16:03
R. Georgeson <rmg(a)nospam.zen.uk> wrote:
> Is there a better way of waiting for OOo to close than -
>
> The sheet that gets loaded initially has a startup macro to create
> <runfile> and a close macro to delete it
>
> Shell script goes
>
> while [ -e runfile ] do
> sleep 10
>
> which feels horribly clonky to me.

Fairly straightforward use of a semaphore file. If you have procmail
installed see the lockfile manpage. Maybe create the lock file under
/var/lock/.

If you have inotify-tools <http://inotify-tools.sourceforge.net/> you
could do:

inotifywait -e delete runfile

>
> I tried
>
> soffice -calc <filename> ;
>
> but that only waits till OOo finishes loading.

Is that ';' a typo for '&'?

If you want to wait in the same shell (or script) from which soffice
is launched:

soffice -calc filename &
soffice_pid=$!

wait $soffice_pid

Or from another shell:

while pgrep 'soffice' > /dev/null 2>&1 ; do sleep 5 ; done
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