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Shailesh Sutar
Asked: 2013-07-03 05:02:19 +0800 CST

Hold till last command completes its execution

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I am developing a shell script which actually stops aws running instances in a particular region & start them again as a part of schedule maintenance. but as ec2-api tools are heavy, takes time to execute the ec2 command. I want my system to hold up till the last ec2 command executes entirely and show its O/P. Like if i am executing

ec2-stop-instances some-id --region us-west-1

It should wait for completion of execution of ec2-stop. I didn't find any solution for this hence posting here.

Let me know if any one have any idea about how it should be done.

linux

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  1. Best Answer

    ec2-stop-instances does not wait for the instance to stop. It only tells AWS to stop instance. It does not wait for the instance to actually stop.

    After executing ec2-stop-instances, you will need to execute ec2-describe-instances repeatedly to get the current status and only when the status is 'stopped' would you continue with your script.

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