Hi All,

I am having this problem and I can't find a decent answer anywere.
I'am trying to perform multiple command in a shell script.

For example

mkdir test
tar cvzf test.tar.gz test/
rmdir test

command1 &
command2 &
command3

The easiest and best way is to put your commands in a script and call that from your crontab.

Thanks, reborg, for you quick reply,

I think I wasn't clear enough.

This is the code I wrote:

#!/bin/sh
HOME=/home/mvo
PATH=/home/mvo/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games

echo -------------------------------------------- >> /home/mvo/backuplog
echo Backup Started `date` >> /home/mvo/backuplog
cd /

if [ -d /home/backups/`date +%w`/ ] ; then
   rm /home/backups/`date +%w`/backup.tar.gz
   echo Overwriting Day `date +%w` starting now.. >> /home/mvo/backuplog
else
   mkdir /home/backups/`date +%w`/
fi

mkdir /home/backups/tmp
mysqldump -u Username -pPassword Databasename | gzip > /home/backups/tmp/mysqldump.sql.dump.gz
echo Database Backup Complete.. >> /home/mvo/backuplog

cp -Rf /var/www /home/backups/tmp
cp -Rf /home/groupoffice /home/backups/tmp
tar czvf /home/backups/`date +%w`/backup.tar.gz /home/backups/tmp
rm -Rf /home/backups/tmp
echo GroupOffice Backup Complete.. >> /home/mvo/backuplog

echo Backup Completed `date` >> /home/mvo/backuplog

Perhaps a sequence like:

Some-command &
wait $!

did you check your mail for any message from cron ?