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Old 09-19-2011
Need help on background processes

Hi,

I have a schell script parent.ksh from which I am calling three background processes a.ksh,b.ksh and c.ksh. Once these three processes completes the next step in parent.ksh should execute. How to achieve this?
Please help me....

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