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Old 04-10-2010
Capturing the exit status of the script running in background
Hi All,

I have a scenario where I am executing some child shell scripts in background (using &)through a master parent script.

Is there a way I can capture the exit status of each individual child script after the execution is completed.
# 2  
Old 04-10-2010
With a regular, plain wait: no.
But you could use a construct like this (untested)
Code:
mkfifo /tmp/my_states
( /path/to/child_1 parameters; echo "child 1: $?" > /tmp/states ) &
( /path/to/child_2 parameters; echo "child 2: $?" > /tmp/states ) &
wait

That should give you the return codes via the FIFO.
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Old 04-10-2010
Ok Thanks...

There is one more issue.

For some odd reason the master driver script is not returning to shell when I am executing the scripts in background. Not sure why Smilie

So currently using Ctrl+C to exit.
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