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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Help with wait command Post 30358 by Vishnu on Monday 21st of October 2002 11:40:30 AM
Old 10-21-2002
are you trying to run all the scripts at once from the parent script, using & ? if you call the scripts one after the other, the shell waits for one script to finish before starting the next in the code, though you can run several scripts at once in the back ground using &.

post your script code.. that would help...
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

scsi_stop

SCSI_STOP(8)							     SG3_UTILS							      SCSI_STOP(8)

NAME

       scsi_stop - stop (spin down) one or more SCSI disks

SYNOPSIS

       scsi_stop [--help] [--verbose] [--wait] DEVICE [DEVICE]*

DESCRIPTION

       This Bourne shell script calls the sg_start utility on each given DEVICE. The purpose is to spin down (stop) each given DEVICE.

OPTIONS

       Arguments to long options are mandatory for short options as well.

       -h, --help
	      print out the usage message then exit.

       -v, --verbose
	      increase level or verbosity.

       -w, --wait
	      wait for the spin down (stop) on each given DEVICE to complete.  The default action is to do each stop in immediate mode.

NOTES

       The sg_start utility calls the SCSI START STOP UNIT command and can either start (spin up) or stop (spin down) a SCSI disk depending on the
       given command line options.

EXIT STATUS

       The exit status of this script is 0 when it is successful. Otherwise the exit status is that of the last sg_start utility called.  See  the
       sg3_utils(8) man page.

AUTHORS

       Written by D. Gilbert

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2009 Douglas Gilbert
       This  software  is distributed under a FreeBSD license. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PUR-
       POSE.

SEE ALSO

       sg_start (sg3_utils)

sg3_utils-1.28							    August 2009 						      SCSI_STOP(8)
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