To call many scripts from mother one simultaneously

juliyp · #1 (**permalink**) 06-08-2009

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

vidyadhar85 · #2 (**permalink**) 06-08-2009

call each script one by one and run them in background
scr1 &
scr2 &
scr3 &
.
.
.
scr20 &

wpeckham · #3 (**permalink**) 06-08-2009

#!/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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