Background task

[alexec]

I'd like a task to go into the background.

The use case I have is I'm running several tasks, some of which port forward from Kubernetes. I want the the dependent tasks to start only when the port is ready.

I don't think this is possible currently.

Note, I'm the author of https://github.com/kitproj/kit

[trulede]

A cmd that represents a bash while loop (while do done), with break condition (if then break), will solve your problem.

Or a watch task will also do the trick, if you are able to express your problem in such terms (e.g. write port state to a file).

IMO a simple bash one-liner will do the trick. Or if you are on windows, power shell has similar capabilities. No need to reinvent the wheel in Task.