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Old 06-13-2013
Executing multiple commands in a file at same time
Hi

Am having file.ksh as below
Code:
wc -l file1.txt
wc -l file2.txt
wc -l file3.txt
wc -l file4.txt


i want all the commands in this file to execute in same time

please help

Thanks in advance
Last edited by Franklin52; 06-13-2013 at 06:40 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags
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Old 06-13-2013
Add & at the end of your commands

Code:
wc -l file1.txt &
wc -l file2.txt &
wc -l file3.txt &
wc -l file4.txt &

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