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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Asynchronous shell scripts question - newbie Post 302482883 by fpmurphy on Wednesday 22nd of December 2010 09:41:31 PM
Old 12-22-2010
Here is a simple example which should explain things to you.
Code:
#!/bin/bash

async1()
{
   sleep 5
   echo "from async 1"
   sleep 5
   echo "async 1 finished"
}

async2()
{
   sleep 3
   echo "from async 2"
   sleep 4
   echo "async 2 finished"
}

echo "main before"
async1 &
apid1=$!
async2 &
apid2=$!

echo "main PID=$$ asynch1 PID=$apid1 asynch2 PID=$apid2" 
wait $apid1 $apid2
echo "main after"   
exit 0

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