execute 10 jobs in either background or foreground -- wait for all them to finish and then start the next 10 or whatever count is coming from the next batch of files.
I think I'll have to go with the Plan-B ( execute 10 jobs at a given time , and start a new if there are less than 10 jobs running ) --
Well, that's is just totally confusing. How would you propose to start 10 in the foreground? There is a way to put a process into the background that opens a new terminal session and it then runs the command you want in the foreground there, but I doubt that is what is being requested. In any case, you have almost certainly chosen the opposite of the brief if you go for logic b.
You want logic a and the advice given by Corona688
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Originally Posted by busyboy
but what if 2 or more background processes are finished before the sleep is timed out, You see your code is running only 1 job in the else case.
Okay, perhaps I should have added wait before the echo "Finished them with up-to-ten running" to ensure they all finished. The loop for logic b will run and keep adding jobs up to the limit until there are none more left to run at which point the loop will end, but the jobs keep running to completion. There will always be a position where there are none left & fewer than 10 running.
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