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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Keep a certain number of background processes running Post 302280647 by rwuerth on Tuesday 27th of January 2009 10:29:47 AM
Old 01-27-2009
I don't see any procedure to decrement your counter variable once inside the loop. So if one process stops, the counter should decrement by 1 and then you would launch another process.

But what confuses me, is how does your script ever get out of the 'if' test once you've reached four concurrent processes?

Last edited by rwuerth; 01-27-2009 at 12:08 PM.. Reason: correcting grammar & spelling.
 

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