[maxander]

Yeah I was unclear there - I meant the other use of the & operator, 'foo & bar' where bar starts after foo completes. AFAIK, if you ran foo by itself, there's no way to make bar automatically run after foo completes.

[yencabulator]

I had that need and made something a lot simpler: https://github.com/tv42/wait-for-pid

[arjvik]

think you mean && there :)