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1. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers
Hi
I am facing a problem in my ksh.
My main script is calling 3 different child process in the background.
I am using wait to finish all and then submit another 3 child processes.
Now what i want is , whenever any one child process finishes ,i want to submit next one.so that parallel 3... (2 Replies)
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all,
I am starting mgen5 for sometime depends on input from a file, in a child process. now I want to make parent to wait in this child process till mgen5 finishes, or timeout happens.
could anyone please tell me how to make parent to wait in child process in shell script?
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3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hello all,
I have a very basic question. I have a requirement where in, I have a main process which forks a child process, which execs and runs a c executable corresponding to a daemon. In the c executable corresponding to a daemon, as everyone does, I fork another child process, and as part of... (7 Replies)
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Let's say I start process A.sh, then start process B.sh. I call both of them in my C.sh
How can I make sure that B starts its execution only after A.sh finishes.
I have to do this in loop.Execution time of A.sh may vary everytime.
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have three files in my IN directory.Each file should be copied 25 times using for loop.Each file processing should run in parallel?How to spawn multiple processes in unix?Any help would be appreciated.
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Liyakath (7 Replies)
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6. Programming
Hello. I want to make a child do some stuff,wait,then the parent does some stuff and then child does some stuff and waits again.I have made the following but it does not work.Can anybody help me?
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if (pid1 == -1)
{
perror("Can't create child\n");
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am trying to find a list of files and writing it to a text file. Based on the machine performance the file writing will be slow at certain time.
The code to find file and redirecting the output to text file is on a shell script
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8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I've been working on some scripts in which I spawn some background processes. I'd like to be able to limit the number of processes, but have my script spawn additional processes as previous tasks finish. So, let's say I have 20 tasks to complete. Any given task could take from 1 to 10 minutes. ... (7 Replies)
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9. Programming
I'm trying to make a program that will spawn multiple child processes then exit. I'm having trouble figuring out how to do this since after I fork, the child process begins running the program again (never ending).
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10. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
Hi
I have a shell script A which calls another 10 shell scripts which run in background. How do i make the parent script wait for the child scripts complete, or in other words, i must be able to do a grep of parent script to find out if the child scripts are still running.
My Code:
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