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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Calling shell script within shell script Post 302846971 by Don Cragun on Monday 26th of August 2013 04:29:48 AM
Old 08-26-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by baanprog
Hi All,

I have a simple script that has 8 more scripts being called within it.
Like below

Main Script.sh has within it like below
-----------------------

Code:
Script1.sh
Script2.sh
Script3.sh
Script4.sh
Script5.sh
Script6.sh
Script7.sh
Script8.sh

-----------------------------

Now I want 2 to run after 1 finishes and 3 after 2 and likewise until 8 as each script create a huge file which can take time to complete and it cannot be a fixed value(so cannot use sleep).

Please let me know will unix automatically wait for script 1 to finish for script 2 to start and so on

or

should I use (& and wait) combination to handle this.

Thanks
Your script as written above will not start Script2.sh until Script1.sh exits. As long as Script1.sh doesn't start anything asynchronously that hasn't completed before it exits; you will be fine.
 

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SCSI_START(8)							     SG3_UTILS							     SCSI_START(8)

NAME

       scsi_start - start one or more SCSI disks

SYNOPSIS

       scsi_start [--help] [--verbose] [--wait] DEVICE [DEVICE]*

DESCRIPTION

       This bash shell script calls the sg_start utility on each given DEVICE. The purpose is to spin up (start) each given DEVICE.

OPTIONS

       Arguments to long options are mandatory for short options as well.

       -h, --help
	      print out the usage message then exit.

       -v, --verbose
	      increase level or verbosity.

       -w, --wait
	      wait for the spin up (start) on each given DEVICE to complete.  The default action is to do each start in immediate mode.

NOTES

       If a large number of disks are spun up at the same time (i.e. without the --wait option) then the power supply may be overloaded.

EXIT STATUS

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