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try this, at the end of the parent script

value=`ps -ef | egrep '(a|b|c|d|e|f).sh'`
while [ ! -z "${value}" ]
do
echo child scripts are still running
done

you may want to use while statement..
value=`ps -ef | egrep '(a|b|c|d|e|f).sh'
while [ ! -z "${value}" ]
do
echo child scripts are still running
done

HTH

Hi Srini,

grep -v 'grep' would tend to filter the process output, not to include grep process.. Remember that it may be included as a process, and would confusions. So to be safe, that was added...