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Old 06-08-2009
To call many scripts from mother one simultaneously
Hi,
I need to rin few other scripts from one main (mather) script. Working in ksh on LINUX. The only one condition - it should be run in parallel.
I mean I have to be able to call 20 scripts from this mother script in parallel (start them in the same time). Does somebody know how to do it?

Thanks,
Juliy
Last edited by juliyp; 06-08-2009 at 04:53 PM..
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Old 06-08-2009
call each script one by one and run them in background
scr1 &
scr2 &
scr3 &
.
.
.
scr20 &
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Old 06-08-2009
Simple loop to start them all
#!/bin/ksh
# the one-ring script
# to start them all

# a variable to hold all of the script names
SCRIPTLIST="script1
script2
script3
...
script20"

# start all child scripts in background
for foo in $SCRIPTLIST ; do
${foo} &
done

# only continue when they all finish
wait

# rest of master script
...
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