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Re: fork within a shell script



On Sat, Aug 24, 2002 at 01:51:20AM +0200, Christian Schoenebeck wrote:
| Hi!
| 
| I'm wondering how I can fork within a shell script, or bettr let's say how
| to parallel launch programs in a script instead of the sequential way.
| 
| I tried to use the & character like this:
| 
| for INDEX in ${ALIST[*]};
| 	do commandbla &;
| done
| 
| But that always results in an 'unexpected token' error.

Try this instead :

for INDEX in ${ALIST[*]}; do
    commandbla &
done


(leave out the semicolon)

-D

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