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Old 05-20-2009
Commands in background in a script
Hi,

I was writing a script for backup,however i stumbled upon this.( As i mentioned in my earlier posts iam a beginner in shell scripting).

Here is a piece of code

case $DB_STAT in

OFFLINE)

echo "Service $SID currently $DB_STAT"

/usr/local/bkps/flash_filesystems $SAVE $SID 2> $LOGF


;;

so here iam tring to run the command /usr/local/bkps/flash_filesystems $SAVE $SID in background and the value of $SAVE is a command (savefs).

i tried

(( /usr/local/bkps/flash_filesystems $SAVE $SID)) & 2>$LOGF
tried with ()

is there any way where in i can run it in background with in the script
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Old 05-20-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by maverick_here
Hi,

I was writing a script for backup,however i stumbled upon this.( As i mentioned in my earlier posts iam a beginner in shell scripting).

Here is a piece of code

When you post code, please wrap it in [code] tags.
Quote:
Code:
case $DB_STAT in

    OFFLINE)

        echo "Service $SID currently $DB_STAT"

        /usr/local/bkps/flash_filesystems $SAVE $SID 2> $LOGF
        

 ;;

so here iam tring to run the command /usr/local/bkps/flash_filesystems $SAVE $SID in background and the value of $SAVE is a command (savefs).

i tried

(( /usr/local/bkps/flash_filesystems $SAVE $SID)) & 2>$LOGF
tried with ()

is there any way where in i can run it in background with in the script

Code:
/usr/local/bkps/flash_filesystems "$SAVE" "$SID" 2>$LOGF &

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