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Old 04-13-2009
check exit status of bg scripts

HI All,

I am running one shell script, in that script i am calling 4 scripts in the background.

abc.ksh &
efg.ksh &
xky.ksh &
mno.ksh &

please let me know, how could i find the success and failure of each script.

i Cannot use $?, because i want to run all the scripts in parellel.

Thanks
Smilie
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Old 04-13-2009
you can write the exist status of each script to a file and check the file in you main script...
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