Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All,

I was out not working on unix from quite sometime and came back recently. I would really appreciate a help on one of the issue I am facing....

I am trying to kick off the CodeNameProcess.sh in PARALLEL for all the available codes. The script runs fine in parallel.
Let say there are 50 codes. I am kicking off the CodeNameProcess.sh 50 times in parallel as a background process.
This is working fine.

ISSUE:
I am trying to see out of 50 codes, if for any one of the codes, the script CodeNameProcess.sh errors out,
I want to capture return code ($?) for that. All I am trying to do is to capture the return code of all the 50 codes.
So that at the end of all the 50 codes execution, I can do something with the process if any ONE out of 50 codes has failed.

Below is the code snippet below that is kicking off all the codes successfully in parrallel(which is working fine) but
I am not able to get the proper RETURN CODE even if the scripts for one of the code has failed.
Is there a way to capture the return code from CodeNameProcess.sh running in background.

Code:

#!/bin/ksh
ERROR=0

for codes in `cat ${DIR}/filename.txt`
do

	. /scripts/CodeNameProcess.sh $codes &
	rc=$? 
	# I am not able to get the proper return code back from $rc above. 
	#It always show success even if there is an error in CodeNameProcess.sh for one of the codes

	echo "The script launched for ${codes}"


		if [ ${rc} -ne 0 ]
		then
			ERROR=1
			echo "the script for ${codes} FAILED....Please check...."
		fi

done


if [ ${ERROR} -ne 0 ]
then
	 echo "Codename script failed for some of the codes....Please check..."

else
	echo "The Process Complete Successfully for all 50 codes."
	
fi

I would really appreciate your help.

Please Note: The script needs to kick off the CodeNameProcess.sh in parallel for all codes hence kicking it
off as a bacground process: CodeNameProcess.sh &

The $? for getting the return code only works against the last foreground executed task.

With that said, consider the following:

Code:

(/path/to/my/background/script.sh; echo $?) &

Now you may have to do something tricky like capturing the i/o and possibly identify the "job" also so that you can process these afterward and find which one failed, etc....

Hope this is a good enough hint...