Shell Programming and Scripting

#!/bin/ksh
for i in {1..10}
do
  list[$i]=$(ls -lS | awk "NR>$i" | awk 'NR%10==1{print $9}')
done
echo "${list[1]}" #prints contents of the first list (just to show how to get to the filenames contained there)

par=10
for i in *                                        # For every file in the directory
do 
  while [ $(ps |grep -c "[c]ommand") -ge $par ]   # wait until a slot is free if there are 10 or more processes 
  do   
     sleep 1
  done
  command "$i" &                                  # run "command" on file "$i" in background
done
wait                                              # wait for last background processes to finish

#!/bin/sh
$dest=/my/destination/directory
ls -l | sort -n | awk {`print $9'} > /tmp/all
cd /tmp ; split -l 10000 /tmp/all

for file in `cat /tmp/xaa`
do
/usr/local/bin/genrep.pl $file /my/destination/directory
done

#!/bin/sh
$dest=/my/destination/directory
par=10
for i in *                                        # For every file in the directory
do 
  while [ $(ps |grep -c "[g]enrep") -ge $par ]    # wait until a slot is free if there are $par or more processes 
  do   
     sleep 1
  done
  /usr/local/bin/genrep.pl "$i" "$dest" &         # run "command" on file "$i" in background
done
wait                                              # wait for last background processes to finish

#!/bin/bash
for i in {1..10}
do
  list[$i]=$(ls -lS | awk "NR>$i" | awk 'NR%10==1'{'print $8'})
done
for i in {1..10}
do
  for file in ${list[$i]}; do genrep.pl $file ../test2 ;done &
done