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How to wait for multiple back ground jobs to complete 2

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ddiamond

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Apr 22, 2005
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In ksh, how would I write a script that launches many jobs in parallel, and then waits for them all to complete before performing the rest of its logic?
 
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Code: 
cmd1 &
cmd2 &
cmd3 &
wait
# all background jobs are finished now

HTH,

p5wizard
 
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I'm impressed. I didn't know Unix made that so easy. I do most of my programming in windows. To do the same in windows is much more difficult.
 
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