wait for a process in OS X

[Chris Sheffield]

This is probably a stupid question. And I swear I've done this in the  
past, but I can't for the life of me remember how I did it.

I need to launch an application from within a script, but I need my  
script to wait for the application to close before continuing. I've  
tried launch, open process, and even the shell() function, but in  
each case the script just continues running. How can I do this? Is my  
only option to launch it, then wait in a loop and continually check  
the running processes using shell()? If so, I suppose that's fine.  
Just kind of a hassle.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Chris


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Chris Sheffield
Read Naturally
The Fluency Company
http://www.readnaturally.com
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