Bash Script Calls another bash script and waits for it to complete before proceeding

Question

I have 1 bash script that runs another bash script, however the first bashscript isn't waiting for the second one to complete before proceeding, how can I force it to wait?

For example:

#!/bin/bash # first.sh  #call to secondary script sh second.sh echo "second.sh has completed"  echo "continuing with the rest of first.sh..." 

The way it is now, it will run second.sh, and continue on, without waiting for second.sh to complete.

Answer 1

AS I use scheme like this in few scripts - just calling second scripts in the same shell-copy using source.

In script-1:

source script2.sh 

or:

. script2.sh 

So - no one command in script-1 will not be proceeded till script2.sh will end all it's tasks.

Little example.

First script:

$ cat script-1.sh #!/bin/bash echo "I'm sccript $0." echo "Runnig script-2..."  source script-2.sh  echo "script-2.sh finished!" 

Second script:

$ cat script-2.sh #bin/bash echo "I'm script-2. Running wait operation..." sleep 2 echo "I'm ended my task." 

How it works:

$ ./script-1.sh I'm sccript ./script-1.sh. Runnig script-2... I'm script-2. Running wait operation... I'm ended my task. script-2.sh finished!