How to achieve Parellelism for the function which has multiple cp commands


 
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Old 02-26-2010
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Originally Posted by scottn
&! means nothing to me.

$! returns the PID of the last background job.

It's unlikely that %1 will return, or wait for, some PID other than that of the job to which it relates.

Thanks Scott,

Its a typo.. I was asking about $!. However, Thanks for all your clarifications.
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